DVD home movie editing question

[Let'sgoflying!]

I have a DVD file in "VOB" format.
It is about 450Mb. (huge)
Do I have to buy software to shrink its size to a more reasonable 5-10Mb?
How about to edit out sections of the movie?
Thanks

 

[bbchien]

Pinnacle Vers. 9 will do the job.

 

[sshekels]

Depends on what the VOB is. VOBs are usually multiplexed dolby digital audio streams and MPEG-2 video, and usually are encrypted. If it has standard chapters and "extra" goodies like DVDs, then you can use DVD-Shrink (http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html) to edit and re-author it. Take a look at http://www.doom9.org/ for all sorts of tutorials and free tools.

I would guess it may be tough to get it shrunk to the size you are hoping for, unless the VOB has lots of unwanted stuff.

 

[wsuffa]

I've got Pinnacle ver. 8. The edit functions work pretty well, though rendering is slow (that on a 2.6 GHZ machine with 1.5 GB of RAM). Version 8 does not import from the internal DVD drives, I think 9 does.