edit DVD: what to use

[dainova]

Hi,

I have a DVD made directly on DVD recorder from DV-camera, it's only one piece, and I need to trim video, now I have bunch of files with different extensions: .VOB, IFO, BUP none of them I can load into Ullead I used before. I can see theat VOB are hold some good piece of info by its size.

Can anybody recommend the way to extract main video part and trim it, any software, I try some but it just for capture not for cut.

Tx to all

Dai

[guns1inger]

You can use VOB2mpg to extract the mpg video from the VOB files created by your DVDR. Ulead can probably edit these, although it also probably re-encode them.

DV is a much better format for editing than mpeg, so if you know you are going to edit, you are better off transferring to your PC as DV, and not going through your DVDR.

[dainova]

Tx,

Yes, I like to convert it into DV, I tried VOB2mpg and it does what it says, take it into MPG.

Any other can do it into DV ?

Tx again

[redwudz]

If you started with DV, why not leave it in that format? DV is one of the easiest formats to edit there is. VirtualDub is a freeware editor that works well, and there are others. You can also use Windows Movie Maker to edit and output as DV, then encode it to the format you want.

But if you already converted to MPEG in the form of VOBs, etc., VOB2MPG will get you to just MPEGs again. Unless you need extensive editing and transitions, I would leave it in MPEG format and use a MPEG editor. VideoReDo and MPG-VCR are a couple of choices. For freeware, Cuttermaran. But you would be better off editing it in the original DV format and reduce quality loss by re-encoding it unnecessarily.