Cut clips from home DVDs and combine with Pinnacle

[avz10]

I am suddenly stuck.

I have quite a number of free and other programs like DVD Shrink, TMPGEnc, DVDFab6, as well as Pinnacle Ultimate 12.

I want to copy numerous clips from home dvds and with photos make a dvd using Pinnacle for my daughter's 21st.

I tried DVDFab, but Pinnacle did not recognize the format, so did DVD Shrink(I converted a lot of video tapes to DVD using my DVD hard drive recorder.

Any advice please?

[Ghitulescu]

Pinnacle can definitively import DVDs.
What kind of DVDs do you have?
Maybe you should use TDA, as you assumely have only one audio track and no subtitles. It can do all what you like.

[avz10]

I did not know about the "Importing DVD titles" and start to use it this afternoon with good results.

I use DVD+ for videos.

Some of these DVDs are importing quickly, but the ones I made using TMPEng with GUI for DVD Author struggle to upload/ it is extremely slow- waiting for more than 2 hours now for one DVD to upload.

So I was wondering if anyone knows of a program that would convert DVD (vob files) to MPEG, which I then could use in Pinnacle?

Albie

[CWR03]

Try renaming a VOB file's extension to .mpg. I've never used Pinnacle, but I've never had an issue with importing any VOB file from a DVD into any program that supports MPEG-2.

[2Bdecided]

Some of these DVDs are importing quickly, but the ones I made using TMPEng with GUI for DVD Author struggle to upload/ it is extremely slow- waiting for more than 2 hours now for one DVD to upload.Check it's not due to read errors - this may indicate the discs are going bad, and need rescuing now if they're your only copy.

Cheers,
David.