List of acceptable formats

Question

Is there a comprehensive list of formats that Premiere Elements can import/export?  Thanks.

Answer 1

Thank you for the kind words. What I tried to do was to convey the idea that not all .VOB files are created equal. It's just like .AVI files. Different "stuff" can reside inside those files with common extensions. It's the "stuff" that matters, and not the file extension.
With pure MPEG-2 .VOB's (most common with the second, third, etc. .VOB in a VIDEO_TS folder), one can most often just change the file extension to MPEG and edit. It's usually that first .VOB that can contain all sorts of extra "stuff," ofen menuing instrucitons, navigational instructions and even title instructions. These can muck up just renaming the first .VOB to MPEG, and can also keep PrE and PrPro (from version CS4.1) from just Importing and working with the files.
As both Adobe NLE's are built around a DV-AVI Type II file workflow for SD material, doing a good, clean conversion, as ATR recommends, will work in all cases. The limitation is the utility used for this conversion, and how well it deals with that "stuff." MPEG Steamclip comes highly recommended for this purpose.
Many format charts stop very short, as they'll say things like "supports: AVI, MPEG, MP4, .MOV, .VOB, etc." What they fail to take into consideration (and it's a very important consideration), is that each of those can contain all sorts of CODEC's, and "stuff." They are but "wrappers," and are almost meaningless by themselves. This ARTICLE goes into a little background on the concept of "wrappers." Actually, once one gets past the first .VOB with the potential for "stuff," they are probably the easies files to deal with as they WILL be MPEG-2 files inside the .VOB wrapper. The rest in the list can be nearly anything, hence the confusion.
Good luck,
Hunt