Ive recently bought a Panasonic domestic stand alone DVD Recorder to transfer my old VHS and VHS c tapes to DVD. Now that I have them on DVD is there any weay I can edit the resultant .vob files and 'restore' the footage as some of it is awful quality now Any advice would be hugely appreciated
Well you can Edit the Files But you can"t Make the Quality Better, You might be able to filter out some of the Noise but you would have to re-render the File which would degrade the quality more than any Filters would improove it... I think you are Sh*t out of Luck when it comes to Trying to Improove the Quality of the Video....
Yes you can edit the VOB files as VOB files are Basicly just Mpeg2 files but you have to use a Editor that is made especially for Mpeg2 editing.... Proper Mpeg editors are different than other editors because proper Mpeg editors do not recompress the Files when outputting so the Quality of the Output files are the Same as the Input Files..... There are only 2 Editors that I know of that can Properly handle Mpeg2/Vob files without affecting the quality and can also handle the Dolby AC3 audio that is used on most Vob files and they are "Womble Mpeg2VCR" and "Womble Mpeg Video Wizard"... To get the Vob files to your Hard drive you can use a Ripper Like "Smartripper" or "DVD Decryptor" they can also rip the DVD as a Single Vob file instead of a Bunch of Little ones and they are easier to edit as One big file......Cheers
Two things... you are "capturing" in MPEG2 this way Better buy a GOOD A/D converter box, you'll soon find that there's a good one... you get "slightly" compressed (DV) AVI's which you can (perfectly) edit, add effects, encode this amount off material with a software encoder, which you can set, so it fits the media, you want to store it on. any other manner, gives you "limits" and quality loss, and a lot of effort, to get it the way you want it... I guess this doesn't help you much in your pressent situation, sorry, but devolpment in dvd-recorders, (standalones) is still a long way to go, and they want to sell them for a long time ... better buy it in PieCes
