VOB dilemma - audio and general conversion confusion...

[bananadude]

First let me say how amazing this site is. I would certainly have been completely lost had I not stumbled across this place, and I have learnt so much here already. I'm just overwhelmed by how much info there is!

Having said that, despite reading so many guides and posts, I am in somewhat of a dilemma.

Here is what I am trying to do. I am extracting scenes from various DVD's for the purposes of cutting together a showreel. I have been using Chopper XP to extract the scenes I want from the big VOB files on the DVD's, and this has been working well without too many problems, leaving me with a multitude of VOB files which contain the scenes I want. Lovely. I am just roughly cutting out the bits I want, with the intention of editing properly in Adobe Premiere Pro (which i have) or a similar programme, then converting back to DVD at a later date. I also have Adobe Encore DVD.

However, I am in the position now where I have all these VOB files, but a simple conversion to video file (be it mpeg or avi) leaves me with the wrong audio. Either a foreign audio track or the commentary - never plain English!

I understand this is where demultiplexing fits in? However, my attempts at this have failed miserably so far. I would like to know if there is a simple way to just extract the correct audio I need from these VOB files and then convert them to workable mpeg or avi files (while maintaining as much of the original DVD quality as possible) so that I can edit it all. The video conversion bit seems the easy part (if only it were as simple as renaming the VOBs to MPG), but the audio aspect has me jiggered.

I have read several threads that appear to be asking similar questions, but the fact I have all these seperate smaller VOBs on my hard drive seems to be quite a unique situation, as many of these demultiplexing guides deal with taking stuff of the DVD itself and in large chunks, which I am not doing.

If anyone can offer me some advice, it would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance...

[maetel99]

You might want to take a look at Cinematize. It looks like it will do want you want-- take any piece of a DVD and save it out as an AVI, QuickTime movie, WAV, etc.

There seems to be a new release that is listed on the videohelp front page right now.