VOB playing wrong soundtrack

[[Admin] osborn4]

We've got a 17 minute video to play at church on a DVD. When I go into Video_TS, there are 3 large VOB files along with the normal smattering of other files.

The first on has the wrong language, but it's a bit bigger than the other two. (1,048,544 vs. 935,342). The other two have English, but also show subtitles in other languages.

Is there a way to switch soundtracks on the VOB w/o the subtitles? I'm guessing that it's bigger because it has an alternate track, but I don't know that much about DVDs and such.

Would it be fraught with peril if I went into Premier Elements and tried to use the video from VOB1 and the audio from VOB2?

I may just have to play it off the DVD, because I can get that to work.

Let me know what you think. I prefer to stay away from optical media as much as possible.

Thanks.

[Gene]

You can take the video from VOB1 and the audio from VOB2 and combine them into a new video in Premier. I'm guessing you can do it in Premier Elements, too. Just be sure they're exactly aligned and the audio matches the video, or you'll the badly dubbed foreign film effect

[[Admin] osborn4]

Fortunately, there are no speaking parts. The whole thing is narrated.

Unfortunately, I've been trying to drop VOB1 onto the timeline in PE and it's been running for several hours, taking most of one of my processor cores, but only 1.7 GB of RAM, but the progress bar hasn't moved from around 20%.

I just don't understand how the DVD can play the English track with no subtitles, whne none of the VOBs are configured that way.

[streamkoinonia]

Use MPEG-Streamclip with the Apple MPEG playback component ($20) to extract any format from a DVD or re-author the precise portion using DVDshrink. I've also noticed VOB files can retain meta data from previous files - so if you started with the wrong VOB to begin with, chances are, the project files adobe creates for each clip can be linked incorrectly. Try starting with a fresh project in Premiere E.

[Paris MkVI]

There's another converter out there too, called WinFF (winff.org). It is PC-based, free, and will convert your VOB's into another file format your editor will be happier working with.

[bcastle]

convert to avi