Importing .avi (.xvid) audio only, basically no video

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In that case, you are left with working with the .VOB's. Remember that that material has already been pretty heavily compressed to MPEG-2 already. Quality has been compromised. This will become evident, if you then output to DVD-Video again.
Other than the mechanics of ripping the MPEG-2 from the .VOB, you might want to consider another NLE program. There are some, that will allow for "smart rendering," which will not re-Transcode material that has not been altered. I do not have a list of which NLE's will allow for this, unfortunately. I have heard that Sony Vegas offers this but do not know, as I have never used it. Some folk have mentioned a Corel product, but again, I have no experience. You might want to Google for "smart rendering," and see which programs show up. Also, others here might well have good recs., and experience. I just do not, as I seldom am faced with having to edit from .VOB's. When I am, I just point out the quality hit, and urge the client to get the original material. Guess I'm just lazy. Heck, I might even have a program that does do smart rendering, and just do not know it... ?
Good luck,
Hunt

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The Flip Video camcorder records or "captures" video in MPEG-4 advanced simple profile format, saved as an AVI file.
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Audio Stream BitRate Mode -> CBR
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Sampling Rate -> 48.0 KHz
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Update to first post.
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http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
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http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
3.) With Flip4Mac WMV Player Pro $29 you can convert your WMV files for iMovie.
http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm
4.) With Perian 0.5 and Quicktime Pro $30 you should be able to convert your AVI/DivX files to a DV format for iMovie.
http://perian.org/
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