making/editing clips from a vob file

[ramlin]

Hi,
I have had a number of old family super 8 films from the 1960's converted onto a DVD by a shop in town. The DVD has the usual structure with vob files etc. The same shop is converting to DVD for me a whole bunch of family videos (the old vhs-c cassettes) that I used 10- 15 years ago.

Next week is my late grandfather's 10th memorial service and I would like to edit clips from the DVD's onto one DVD and show it to the family at the service. My grandparents appear for some 20-30 minutes (in scattered places) in the DVD that has has already been converted and the one will I will receive once the video conversion is finished.

Now the question....how can I edit the parts from those DVD's in order to take clips from them with my grandparents and then burn those clips onto a DVD (with, maybe, transitions in between). Could someone please recommend an intuitive not too complicated software for an "idiot" like me to use that may help me - I tried to use MPEG Video Wizard DVD - and, frankly, I found it quite bewildering...any other suggestions?

Many thanks!

[Baldrick]

You can try latest TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3, it supports dvd import, transitions and is a very good mpeg2/dvd editor.

Or you could use vob2mpg (or convert to dv avi using xvid4psp if you get problems importing mpeg in the editors) and use other basic editors like windows movie maker, etc. But you will lose more video quality because mvw,tme3 will just reconvert the transitions and not the entire clip.

If you don't need transitions you can use tmpgenc dvd author, videoredo tv suite.

[ramlin]

You can try latest TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 3, it supports dvd import, transitions and is a very good mpeg2/dvd editor.

Or you could use vob2mpg (or convert to dv avi using xvid4psp if you get problems importing mpeg in the editors) and use other basic editors like windows movie maker, etc. But you will lose more video quality because mvw,tme3 will just reconvert the transitions and not the entire clip.

If you don't need transitions you can use tmpgenc dvd author, videoredo tv suite.

wow, that was quick - thank you for your help - I'll try TMPGEnc MPEG Editor and will report back!