Help: Recommendation for best video converter with U.S.-based phone support

[charmedlife417]

FilmBoss and Usually_Quiet:

Thanks to both of you. I will give these solutions a try.

Best,
CharmedLife

[chicken264]

VideoRedo TV suite costs $74 for DVD/MPEG2 edit.

[TBoneit]

Plus I found VideoReDo to be very responsive over the years via their forums. Which was why I suggested them.

Dan over there is very helpful and has implemented features based on user requests.
I find their Latest version to work great with HD-PVR captures.

[usually_quiet]

VideoRedo TV suite costs $74 for DVD/MPEG2 edit.

Plus I found VideoReDo to be very responsive over the years via their forums. Which was why I suggested them.

Dan over there is very helpful and has implemented features based on user requests.
I find their Latest version to work great with HD-PVR captures.

The trouble is the OP wants to create presentations from DVD movie clips to put on a DVD, and wants to use titles and/or transitions in between video segments. CharmedLife417 specifically said (in #10) that this was one of the reasons he/she used Windows Movie Maker:

I know it's stupid and lame, but I use Windows Movie Maker to assemble the clips into a movie. Why? It produces really cool titles, and it's easy and stupid and simple!

VideoReDo products are great for TV captures, in fact much better than anything else I have tried, and are certainly easy to use for frame-accurate cutting, but as far as I can tell they don't provide the abilty to create titles or any other kinds of transitions between clips.

On the other hand, Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD includes the ability to add titles and transitions between clips, has a timeline interface, and is still relatively easy to use. Womble's products don't handle imperfect transport streams very well, particularly HD ones, but since the OP is only working with DVD rips, MPEG-Video-Wizard-DVD is a better match for his/her needs.

[Edit]VideoReDo TV Suite may have pretty good support via its forum, but unless it can provide the things that the OP likes about Windows Movie Maker so he/she doesn't need to use either Windows Movie Maker or AVS Video Converter, there is no reason at all for the OP to use VideoReDo TV Suite for this project.

Womble also has user forums, although I have not used them and can't comment on their quality http://www.womble.com/forums/

[chicken264]

Womble is very good choice and as good as Redo in many aspects.


I was thinking OP will be using WMM for making DVD.

[usually_quiet]

Womble is very good choice and as good as Redo in many aspects.


I was thinking OP will be using WMM for making DVD.

No, if you read through the description of the OP's workflow, he/she is using Adobe Premiere Elements to author DVDs. Unfortunately he/she is unable to figure out how to go about editing and assembling clips using Premiere Elements, and needs something that is less complicated for that part. He/She was converting from DVD to DV-AVI using AVS Video Converter, editing the DV-AVI using WMM, then importing the results into Premiere Elements.

[charmedlife417]

Chicken, Usually_Quiet, TBoneit, Etc.:

Thanks for you all taking the time to chime in here and respond to my post. This is a great forum, and I do appreciate your feedback. I'm going to try the Womble 30-day free trial and see how that goes.

I finally did resolve my reason for posting here, and was able to get AVS Video Converter to load and convert my VOB files. However, after several different approaches, I continue to have an audio-video glitch after conversion. I assume this has to be the AVS program, since the ripped movie files are perfectly in sync before I load and convert them with the AVS software.

Is the Womble product particularly good with A-V sync issues when converting ripped movie files? It has to be pretty close to perfect for this presentation. Are there any other freeware converters that are particularly known for great A-V sync when converting VOB files?

Anyway, thanks again. I will report back by the end of the weekend after I play with the Womble app.

Appreciate It,
CharmedLife417

[jagabo]

I finally did resolve my reason for posting here, and was able to get AVS Video Converter to load and convert my VOB files.

It's very helpful to others when you don't bother posting your fix.

[charmedlife417]

Jagabo, I'm not sure what you mean. You would prefer I DON'T post how I fixed the problem? Wouldn't others with similar issues want to know how it was resolved?

[jagabo]

I was being sarcastic. You say you solved your original problem but you didn't say how. It would be helpful for the next person that runs into the same problem if you posted what you did to fix it.

[usually_quiet]

Is the Womble product particularly good with A-V sync issues when converting ripped movie files? It has to be pretty close to perfect for this presentation.

I have not had a problem with A/V synchronization using Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD to edit DVD video.

I have experienced synchronization problems with over-the-air digital TV captures, but they contain errors (due to transmission losses) that you would never encounter with a DVD rip.