Import Clip From DVD

I have been trying for a couple of days to take a clip from a DVD and insert it into PE11.
I can't believe it's so incredibly hard, so I hope someone can help me.
First i use DVD Shrink to extract just the portion I want to the normal VIDEO_TS folder structure. This plays perfecty in AVS, WMP, VLC etc.
I then convert this (mostly using DVDFab), to AVI, WMP, MP4, with AC3, MP3, all kinds of audio.
ALL of them play in all my players. Some of them play in PE when dbl clicking the media in assets.
NONE of them play the speech audio when rendered and played after adding to timeline.
There is background music, however no speech at all.
It's incredibly frustrating as I have tried every codec combination I can think of, all play with normal players, and none can be used in PE11.
what am i doing wrong!
Thanks
Dave

wcn_dave
Sorry, up to your last post I was envisioning your issues to center mostly around the classical ripping of VOBs from the DVD-VIDEO format on a DVD disc.
That is an interesting switch, disc image iso format, in this mix. Never been there and done that, so I did. I have the Phantom Burner installed which allows me to "burn to a virtual disc" in this "virtual burner" to produce a disc image for the Premiere Elements 11 Publish+Share/Disc/DVD disc.
After I mount the disc image iso into the Phantom Burner, I can go to Add Media/DVD Camera or Computer Drive/Video Importer, set the Source for the Phantom Burner drive, and bring the disc image into the Video Importer as VTS_01_1.VOB which can be brought into the Premiere Elements Expert workspace, using the Video Importer's Get Media.
If you got beyond that, I am not seeing the other problems that you say stop you from going further.
You wrote
In PE, I cannot do a 720x552 video, and it wont allow me to use the majority of file formats I have.
As it happens I am trying to get a few 5 second clips from a commerical DVD for a comedy montage I am making for a friends wedding anniversary.
If your VOBs are coming from a PAL DVD-VIDEO 4:3 source, what I suggest you look at is:
Open a new project
Go to File Menu/New/Project
In the new project dialog, set the project preset for PAL DV Standard.
Before you exit the new project dialog, put a check mark next to "Force Selected Project Setting on this Project".
Then, when you are back in the Premiere Elements 11 Expert workspace, bring in your VOBs via Add Media/DVD camera or computer drive/Video Importer (with a check mark next to Add to Timeline...make sure you have the Save In set up correctly so that you do not get into an "already imported" type message (cannot save VOB with same name to same place...more on that if necessary).
If your VOBs are coming from a PAL DVD-VIDEO 16:9 widescreen, do the same but use the project preset PAL DV Widescreen.
As a reminder, the frame size for PAL DVD-VIDEO standard or widescreen is the same 720 x 576.
Please review what I have written and let us know if any of the above helped and/or you need clarification on anything that I have written.
Thanks.
ATR

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