Editing VOB Files

[mikehohman]

So, i would like to make some clips of a couple of scenes from some movies i own on DVD. I can rip the VOB files to my harddisk, but my VideoWave 5.0 editing tool can't take VOB files, only AVI or MPEG.

How do I convert VOB to AVI or MPEG, or otherwise cut out clips from my dvds?

THANKS!

Mike

[killingspree]

hi and welcome to the forum,

apart from the fact that you
a) have multiple choices and
b) should have found more than enough threads that answer your question when searching the forum

here's a couple of hints/guidelines how you could aproach your problem (in no specific order):
*) frameserver the sections you want to your video editing app using avisynth or vfapi.
*) use dvddecrypter to demux the vob files so you end up with a mpv (mpeg video file/ mpeg2) and an (or multiple) ac3 files (audio, dolby digital)
*) decompress your dvd content to some lossless avi-codec, i'd recommend huffyuv for that

hth
and pls keep the forum rules (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm) in mind!

kr
steVe

[manono]

Hi, and welcome to the forum-

I'm not positive that this is what you want, but using Chopper XP (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Vobtools/chopperxp.zip), you can pretty easily cut out what you want from a vob file. Then using one of the Guides (http://www.doom9.org/guides.htm) available on this site, you should be able to learn to do whatever else you want to do.

Also, you can try renaming the .vob extension to .mpg and see if VideoWave will accept it.

Edit: killingspree wins again. :)

[killingspree]

well you beat me linking to the guides... just came back to do so... bummer ;)

cheers

[mikehohman]

Yes, i did some better searching of the threads after my post and I did find some info. I managed to use VirtualDubMod to mark the start and end points of the clip i wanted and then I could save the clip to an .avi which worked. of course, 20 seconds of video leads to 10 GB of .avi file. Yikes.

Also tried the huffyuv lossless avi-codec, which also works, but a 1 GB .vob turns into a 40+ GB avi, which is tricky to manage.

I also tried renaming the .vob to a .mpg, before i posted, but VideoWave wasn't having any of that.

Will try the frameserver method tonight and Chopper XP.

Thanks!!

Mike Hohman

[Internaut]

I do this quite a lot with DVD's that I own.

I decrypt the VOB's with DVD Decrypter, then use Womble's MPEG Video Wizard (not freeware unfortunately, but well worth the bucks) to select what I want.

The beauty of this process is that it's quick since there is no format conversion required. MVW allows you to stream the extracted snippets in their native format, so as these have been extracted from VOB's - they remain DVD compliant. You can then re-author these to a compilation DVD if you want, using any DVD authoring package.

Works like a charm without any messing about with avi's !