Well I recently purchased a Sony VRD-VC20 and have made my first recording of a TV show. Overall it was fairly easy and I'm liking the quality. Nice Resolution, colors are a little washed out but very doable. Sound is a little disappointing but nothings perfect. This is a jack of all trades kind of unit as well so you cant expect perfect DVD quality can you? Anyway, this is where I'm stuck. I rip it with DVDDecrypter into a bunch of VOB files. There are commercials and what not which I dont want. I'm looking for some software that can combine all the VOB files, and then edit it. I looked through the software pages here and couldn't find anything. Am I dumb or something? Also, minimal editing options are needed. (Ability to combine VOBs, cut stuff out, and maybe fade to black screen... that's all I ask for) Is there anything that's FREE out there? Thanx a lot. This forum has helped me out numerous times and I really really appreciate it. You guy's are the best. Thanks for any help you may give me ahead of time.
There's a freeware MPEG editor called Cutterman that should be able to handle the editing. Since it needs elementary streams, and since you also need to join the VOBs, you could use DGIndex to open the VTS and then demux. That will give you video and audio files for the entire set. Use Cutterman to edit and author the output in an authoring app of your choice. You can find a few free DVD authoring programs listed in the FAQ at the top of the DVD Authoring forum.
