Tips for editing VOB files using Pinnacle Studio

Summary: Have trouble importing VOB files into Pinnacle
Studio for further editing? If so, follow the quick-start guide to learn
how to prepare VOB videos for editing in Pinnacle Studio without
quality loss.
I normally receive my stuff in a format I can stick on Pinnacle
Studio, but VOBs are not compatible. What I want to do with the current
project is take the VOB I have and convert it for use with Pinnacle
Studio. And what I need is a VOB converter I know.
After getting some reviews online and multiple testing, I found the
best and easiest way to import VOB files into Pinnacle Studio along with
the help from Brorsoft Video Converter.
It is an optimal VOB converter for you, which can help you change VOB
into a different format like MPEG-2, AVI with least quality loss. You
should then be able to import the new file into Pinnacle Studio with
smooth editing without any trouble. It will ensure a perfect VOB
importing, playing and editing workflow with Pinnacle Studio
9/11/12/14/15.
How to Convert VOB to Pinnacle Studio editable format
1. Download, install and run the VOB to Pinnacle Studio Converter; click "Add Videos" icon to load your source .vob videos.
2. Click “Format” bar and choose "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas
> MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as output format on the drop-down menu. Of course,
you can also choose AVI, MP4, WMV from “Common Video” as the output
format.
3. Click “Settings” button if you’d like to customize
advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit
rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels.
4. Click the convert button under the preview window, the
converter will start encoding VOB for importing to Pinnacle Studio. Soon
after the conversion is finished, just click "Open" button to get the
generated files for edit in Pinnacle Studio 14/15/16 perfectly.
Source: How to split large vob files to Pinnacle Studio
[quote] movies-videos-convert-tips.overblog.com/2014/02/how-to-make-video-object-.vob-format-is-it-editable-friendly-in-pinnacle-studio.html [/quote]

If you have the VOB files is it on a pre-existing DVD that will play on a set top box? (i.e. a VIDEO_TS folder with the VOB of your film inside it?)
then you could use Toast or similar to do a copy of it.
Otherwise you can use a program like MPEGStreamclip to demux the VOB back to an m2v and AC3 (Video and Audio file) and use DVD-SP to make a new playable DVD. There would be no loss in quality if you are merely demuxing.

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