Triming VOB for export to mov

Hi there,
I don't seem to be able to use the "trim to selection" feature when i have a vob file open in Quicktime. Am I not able to trim these files before export?
I've got QT pro with the mpeg2 component.
Thanks indavance!
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G5 single 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Actually MPEG Streamclip is very simple to use (it's no harder than QT as for in/out trim and cut) so this reply makes no sense.
Get the right program ,which is free, and note you will need the MPEG-2 decoder as VOB's are MPEG-2 (DVD format) . If they are AC3 audio as they most likely are, QT won't play AC3 anyway, and exporting MPEG (1 or 2 regardless of audio codec) you lose the audio, so MPEG Streamclip is the way to go. And QT is not.
Note a search here would have shown thousands of posts (not exaggerating) on this very subject .
Note to the above in Streamclip you don't save as a VOB file you save as a MPEG file. A VOB file (Video OBject) is just a standard MPEG-2 file anyway. Use an MPEG/MPG extension.

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