video editing

[frank1234]

Hi there, I have 10 DVD's with about 5 minutes of family events on each one, they were made professionaly and I would like to edit/cut the portion inside each VOB file which I believe are MPEG2 and create a new DVD with all these portions without loosing quality if it is possible.

I know my way around video editing programs but I am still a newby, so far I have created such a DVD with two different programs but the quality is not there and I am not sure weather I should be re-encoding/rendering/changing formats etc.

It will be nice if someone could tell me best way to achieve this and if there is any software better and/or easier than the other.

Any help will be appriciated since it is a video for my granddaughter............Thanks.

[jagabo]

Try Mpg2Cut2. It can read VOB files directly and save as MPG clips without any reencoding. That does mean you are limited to cuts on I frames (about every half second). If you want to cut on any arbitrary frame you will need an editor that allows for that. Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD (and their other MPEG 2 tools) has a smart editor that allows cutting on any frame and only reencodes the cut GOPs (about half a second at the start and/or end of a clip). Then there are lots of editors that allow you to cut on any frame but they will reencode the entire video, losing a little quality and taking more time.

Once you have all your clips you can use any DVD authoring program to make a DVD from those clips. Womble includes authoring functions.