Hello, newbie here. I hope I'm posting in the right section of the forums. I have tried conducting a search on this site as well as other forums for answers to my current plight, but alas, I cannot find a solution to my ailment. I'm hoping someone out there can guide me in the right direction. I am trying to create a video in Windows Movie Maker for a project at school. All I need is ONE little clip from Disney's "Aladdin" (these details are not really necessary to explain, but I want to convey the full effect of my efforts to figure this out on my own). Anyhoos, I downloaded DVDFab Decrypter to upload the entire DVD onto my hard drive. That worked out all fine and good. My next problem came about when I realized that all the clips had ".vob" extentions which do not work in Windows Movie Maker. So I renamed the files trying the extentions ".avi", ".mpg", and ".mpeg". These files WILL play both audio and video in Windows Media Player with no problem. Here is the REAL problem: When I import the new renamed files into Windows Movie Maker and try to insert them into the timeline, they automatically go into the "audio" section instead of the "video." Then when I try to play the preview, I get neither audio nor video, it's just black. I am assuming I need to encode/decode/something-to-that-effect the media files, but I am clueless on how to accomplish such a task. Or perhaps it's something else entirely... can anyone out there PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me with this? I would greatly appreciate any suggestions/solutions you may be able to offer! Thanks in advance.
Well Windows Movie Maker is total Crap editing Software but I guess you get what you pay for.... WMM doesn"t Support Mpeg-2/VOB files and it can Only save your Files as WMV Files which is a Terrorable Format if you want to retain as Much quality.... I would Suggest that you don"t use WMM at all and see if you can get ahold of a Native Mpeg editor like "Womble Mpeg Video Wizard 2005" which will let you edit the VOB files and add effects and Transitions and filters and save it all as a Mpeg-2 file without haveing to re-encode the Whole File and without Drastic Quality Loss.... If you Really Must use WMM then you will have to convert the DVD into an AVI file First and then Load the AVI into WMM...If you look in the "Guides" section of this site you should Find some Guides on how to convert a DVD to AVI..... Good luck
