[Trel Winn]

many thanks for all the advice i will try these options out!

[Trel Winn]

oh and the mpeg is about 30-40 minutes long there are 4 of them (documentories)

[Trel Winn]

no i didnt do that. i clicked file open dvd and tried to do it fromthere. how would i try to transfer the VOBs? i think the encryption might be the thing that prevented the one disc from working.

disc one: i pressed’open file’ and it popped up an error message saying it could not detect vobs though they were there…

disc two: it appeared to begin the conversion but then froze on the ‘preparing window’ and the ‘beachball of death’ spun in rotations for about an hour before i gave up that attempt…

[Trel Winn]

thank you for your feed back Tom.

I had a look at the settings in the clip browser…

The sequence frame size is: 720 x 576, compressor is: DV Pal , pixel aspect is: pal ccir601 and field dominance is :Lower

the clip frame size is 640 x 480, the sequence compressor: does not show, pixel aspect is:square and field dominance is: none

I have tried changing the sequence settings to match the clip settings but this does not seem to have worked.

perhaps I need to change the clip settings instead but so far Ive not figured out how to do this.

Is there a better way to do this?

Many thanks
Trel