My Background: Firstly, hello after dawn users. My name is Luke and I do video editing, graphic design, game development and 3d modeling on my computer for a hobby fairly consistently and very rarely come to a problem that is too difficult to solve or get around but here I am. Project History Ok, here is what I am trying to do: I have recorded some video of my soccer team winning the grand final on my old handy cam tape cassette taking camera. From this camera I have used my DVD recorder to copy the footage onto a few DVDs. From these DVD's I have retrieved the .vob files on my computer. Now heres what I wanted to do: to edit the footage, add commentary, and then reburn it to a DVD. So this is what I did: I wanted to use WMM (Windows Movie Maker)so I converted the .vob files to avi using "kingdia Video Converter" (as it was necessary to convert because as far as I know .vob files don't work on WMM). This worked for most of the clips but some clips wouldn't load into Kingdia so I used "Super - the free video converter" for these ones. So I loaded up the .avi files into WMM and they imported successfully and I edited them, and they played back fine in the preview screen on WMM. So after I'd finished editing I compiled the movie (about 2hr/30 mins) so I left it run over night due to WMM slow compilation speed. When it has finished and I checked the file in the morning it played as a black screen (except for the the Windows Movie Maker Titles I had added, thus meaning it is not a video card issue), although it was a 2 and a half hour black screen video the audio of the file still worked fine when I hit play in Windows Media Player. Things I think may have gone wrong: -the .avi files were corrupted in some way (even though they imported well and played in windows media player) -one of the settings in WMM were wrong (though I doubt it) Things I think may work: -updating to version 2 of WMM (as I have the standard XP edition) -using a screen capture device to record the preview in WMM (as this preview works perfectly and is exactly what I want) - changing a setting in WMM PS. I have already tried the various screen capture devices: camtasia, hero screen recorder, FRAPS, my screen recorder 2.6. (none of these worked because they wouldn't record WMM at all, let alone when the preview was playing) What I want to know: -How can I get it to compile properly? (as in the video and audio both work and can eventually be burnt onto a DVD) -What screen recording program can record 2-1/2hrs of video on the WMM preview screen (doesn't have to record audio)? -Whether WMM 2.0 can open the "standard XP version WMM" project files & whether it would compile this video properly.
Try using DVD-Lab Pro. It supports .VOB files. It demuxes the .VOB and basically becomes an indpendent video and audio file. You can also create menus,extras, etc. What may have happened with your .avi files is the compression method used to convert may have faulted and only converted audio. Try DVD-Lab Pro, I think it's free for 15-30 days, or something like that. It's a good program and should help you accomplish what you're trying to do.
Thank you, very grateful for your reply. I will definitely try the program you suggested. But I really want to know is there a way to get my windows media project to compile successfully because I spent a lot of hours editing the footage. And obviously DVD Labs does not import WMM project files. PS. Next time I do some video editing WMM is not even going to be an option.
