Restructuring files

[Absolute Beginner]

As my name shows I am an absolute beginner working with video files. I have 3 CD's made by a service that converted old super 8 movies to DVDs. They did a great job but unfortunately they are not in chronological order. I would like to cut and paste them in the correct order. The audio is just background music and is not essential. The files are
video_ts.bup , video_ts.ifo, video_ts.vob,
vts.01_0.bup, vts.01_1.ifo, vts.01_0.vob, vts.01_.vob
etc
I am not at all familiar with video file suffixes.
Can anyone recommend an easy to use video editing software package to do this?

[Baldrick]

Tmpgenc mpeg editor.

[jagabo]

Mpeg2Cut2 (free, ugly) will allow you to cut VOB files on key frames -- about every 1/2 second. It will output MPG files. You can then assemble all the MPG files in any order you want and author to a new DVD. With no loss of quality.

[Baldrick]

Yep. If the op are just doing it once it might be worth use a free editor like mpeg2cut2...but the gui can take some time to learn. You could also use vob2mpg and create one mpg that you easier can edit with more free editors like avidemux, free video editor, etc. And then make a new dvd with dvd styler.

Or get VideoRedo($50). Another very good mpeg2/dvd/vob editor.

[nic2k4]

I've had to do something like that once; the client wanted parts of some scenes and some of the music deleted. It would be preferable to try to maintain the audio, otherwise you will get some really distracting "sound effects". If you don't change the length of the movie when moving segments around you can easily preserve the audio.

I agree that if this is going to be a one of thing you should look for freeware even though it might take some effort to learn. There are lots of good guides for every tools listed, look on the tool page.

Start by demuxing the video and audio into separate files with PGCdemux, slice and splice the resulting M2V video file with MPEG2Cut2, import the results and the original audio file in DVDAuthorgui, create some chapter points and a menu to navigate around the movie and burn a new DVD.

[redwudz]

I am not at all familiar with video file suffixes

Look to the upper left on this page for 'WHAT IS' DVD and it will explain the suffixes.