Apologies in advance for doubtless stupid question.

My old video camera recorded onto tape and had a USB connection that
allowed me to import scenes to a PC and edit them with Pinnacle or
similar. I've been given a new Samsung VP-DC171W which has no PC
connection and outputs directly to mini-DVD. What I want to do is edit
the movie on the DVD and re-export it to another disc, but no video
software I have recognises any content on the disc to import - even
opening it in Explorer just shows two folders containing files that
Windows doesn't recognise. The video plays correctly though, in
Windows Media Player.
Is there any way to extract the video from the DVD? The camera itself
has no editing functions other than to erase, so if I cant import it
to a PC it seems that you're stuck with any mistakes you make in
shooting!

On Nov 28, 8:12 am, wibble <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:

Vegas Movie Studio can do that for you.
If you're not looking for an editing package, try Womble and
VideoReDo.
I believe there are free trials for all of these.

Mike

"wibble" <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote in message
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Try re-naming the extension of the .vob files to .mpg. Unless your camera
is using some proprietary format, you should be able to edit these in Movie
Maker. Understand, however, that you're going to lose a considerable amount
of video quality by doing so.

"wibble" <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote in message
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Copy the VOB files over to your hard disk and I would suggest you try out
Womble to edit them. No need to rename VOBs to MPG as Womble will recognise
them. If you are only re-arranging the order or cutting sections out and NOT
inserting any effects like fades or dissolves, if you select Automatic on
the Export - Monitor window the files will not be re-encoding so there will
be no loss of quality as a stream copy is made and it should only takes a
few minutes to export. If you are adding in fades and effects a little
trick to save time and prevent Womble from re-encoding the whole film is to
put a split around 10 seconds before and after where you apply your video
effect, then Womble will only re-encode that 20 second bit. You will then
need to author a new DVD using the appropriate software.

You could also use VideRedo - suggest you drop into www.videohelp.com forum
for more info