VOD to MPEG

[apippin]

Please help I have as Sony Handycam with some great footage but I can't get it to work Windows Movie Maker. can any one tell help me. Many thanks in advance.

[anonymez]

welcome to the forum


it'll help if you give us some more info-- error message? DV camera?

[apippin]

Sony Handycam DCR-DVD403

[anonymez]

what's the error message?

in any case you might like to try this http://forum.digital-digest.com/show...695#post432695

[apippin]

The file D:\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.VOB is not a supported file type, and it cannot be imported into Windows Movie Maker.

Is the error msg I get when I try to import video

[anonymez]

dunno whether this works since i don't use wmm but try renaming vob to mpg. if that fails there's always the link in post #4

[apippin]

what editing program do you recomend for PC user with a handycam?

[anonymez]

i do all my editing in avisynth, but since it runs on scripts and due to it's higher learning curve it can be a very tedious task. i've never really used anything else.

but for free, windows movie maker is probably the best you're going to get. as for commercial software, others seem to like vegas or ulead video studio

[apippin]

Thanks for your help

[benbryant]

Since your miniDVDs come with MPEG-2, editing with Sony Vegas, Premiere, Ulead,...will less or more degrade quality because of re-encoding. In order to add something such as adding music, transitions, fades, titles,...you can use MPEG Video Wizard to do all those steps without reducing quality

Regards