VOB from PVR trying to edit - being driven mad!

[The Big Cheese]

Hi everyone, I hope you can help.

I am backing up footage from a Sony PVR into DVD-RWs which I am copying onto my computer.

I want to do what I assumed would be a simple thing of editing the .vob files to streamline the footage and get rid of the unwanted bits.

I can't find anything that will do it though! I've been browsing on here downloading different things and I'm getting nowhere.

What I want is to use software that gives me a timeline in that I can cut neatly with a decent GUI, I have Premiere Pro CS3 but that won't read VOB.

The VOB files seem to be in a weird format from the PVR so I've run DVDFix on them and DVD Shrink will read them now (where it wouldn't before, so I assume they are 'normal' VOBs now).

I have tried VOB2MPG but that wouldn't recode them properly...in Media Player it would play sound but no video and trying to edit the MPG in Premiere gave me picture but no sound!

Can anyone give me a clue what I'm doing wrong or point me in the right direction of software that will simply recode the VOB, or allow me to edit them directly using a timeline.


Many thanks [/s]

[Baldrick]

Wombles Mpeg Video Wizard.

Or if you prefer to use Premiere you probaly need to convert the audio to wav/pcm, try for example goldwave and open the mpg, convert to wav and then add the mpg and wav in Premiere. There are probably 1000 other methods to solve this also.

[jagabo]

mpeg2cut2 ?

[greymalkin]

another vote for MPeg Video Wizard

Premiere is ridiculous overkill for such a task and will give you poor results.