So I have recently gotten involved with home video editing and producing. I have taken vhs tapes and captured them with a dvd recorder. Then I dump the .vob files to my hard drive and import them into my cyberlink power director software (came with the new video camera). Once I am done editing the video, I then produce into a file format of choice. When I choose DVD format it doesnt give me the option of producing back into .vob format. It comes out in an .mpeg or .avi or vcd etc etc.... Then I have to convert the .mpeg file into dvd format with divxtodvd converter. All this takes an unbelievable amount of time as I am sure most are aware of... My question is this... Am I missing something?? Is there a setting that will allow me to produce directly into .vob's?? It gets a little irritating producing and converting for hours upon hours at a time and then only to find out that the file created at the end is to big and wont fit on the disk.... meaning I have to go back and reproduce at a lesser quality (more compression) and then convert yet again... I know this sounds silly but it took me almost 8 hours to produce 2 hours into 2.4 gig of .mpeg2. And then another couple hours to convert. I have also tried using Movie Maker and found the same setup was involved. I am sorry for this being dragged out and boring... It must sound like a lot of complaining.... but if there is an easier way to get the final result... I would be gratefull to learn it!!!! Thanks
so are you saying that the file DOESN'T have to be in vob format to play on a standard dvd player??? Or am I just misunderstanding you??
Well some players will play raw mpg's. But that is not what I said. If the mpg is DVD compliant, then you can just author, no need to reconvert.
