Best Video Format when Purchasing Videos!

[GPallan]

i'm buying a bulk order of videos from a DVD content provider. i'll need to encode these videos in WMV and Qt in varying dimensions. What format should i get them to send me the videos in? i need an uncompressed format that i can re-encode into WMV and QT using Sorenson Squeeze v4. would VOB work? they can also offer a high quality WMV (2mbps).

thanks

[GPallan]

anyone? thanks

[Lee]

I usually only buy full DVDs so encode from those so not really sure about how well other media formats encode, sorry bud

Regards,

Lee

[GPallan]

is the file you rip off the dvd in vob format? i can have them send me uncompressed vob files, but not sure what they are exactly and if i can encode them in other formats. thanks

I usually only buy full DVDs so encode from those so not really sure about how well other media formats encode, sorry bud

Regards,

Lee

[Lee]

Im pretty sure it is yes, but i just click a button and encode so dont actually check the file formats LOL

Regards,

Lee

[HunkyLuke]

VOBs are good...this gives you the exact copy of a DVD (quality and all), which is probably the best you are gonna get given what you are purchasing. If it was custom content, I would insist on getting the DV tape for even better quality source files.

[GPallan]

hmmmm...thanks guys! i think i'm going to ask for VOB files at full dimension

Im pretty sure it is yes, but i just click a button and encode so dont actually check the file formats LOL

Regards,

Lee

[HunkyLuke]

is the file you rip off the dvd in vob format? i can have them send me uncompressed vob files, but not sure what they are exactly and if i can encode them in other formats. thanks

check your program, odds are good that the first step it does is rip the dvd into VOBs before converting and processing them.

[GPallan]

hmmmm...i took a sample VOB file and encoded it to WMV and QT using Sorenson Squeeze V.4, but there's no sounds on the resulting WMV or QT. does anyone know why that would happen?

[GPallan]

lee, what program do you use to encode your vob files into wmn? wonder if that'll resolve the sound issue

[Lee]

Allan, its called Yasa DVD to MPEG convertor and you can grab it here...

http://www.yasasoft.com/yasadvdtompeg/

Has a free trial and then its like $30 i think.

Regards,

Lee

[basschick]

that happened to me before. try video cleaner but if that doesn't help, why not just have them send you the DVDs? that's the best way to go.

[GPallan]

i'm having them upload the full-sized VOBs...which is going to total around 90GB!! eeeee

i don't think they can send me the dvds beacuse i only purchased one, maybe two scenes from each dvd

ps. thanks lee! that program seems to have fixed the sound issue

that happened to me before. try video cleaner but if that doesn't help, why not just have them send you the DVDs? that's the best way to go.

[Rich]

i dont buy a lot of movie stuff but when i do i always get the entire dvd and i use that program lee said too and it is really easy to make movies from dvds using it