Recently when I browsed answers.yahoo.com, I found many people asked about how to convert VOB files made by their camcorder to MPEG files for uploading to youtube or editing a movie in Windows Movie Makers. Here for the convenience for all, I tried the answers myself and summarized about convert VOB to MPEG formats simply, wish this can help you! In general, most of the products recommend are workable, while some of them have limitation in only converting percentage from total duration or having watermark. But the one called Aneesoft Video Converter Pro really fixed them all. When I tried its free trial, it's really useful. Considering you might be a novice of computer, let me show you how to convert VOB files to MPEG format step by step.
Things you’ll need
1. Aneesoft Video Converter Pro (Free for download trial version)
2. VOB video files
Step 1: Download & install Aneesoft Video Converter Pro
We’ll be using the very nice video converter software called Aneesoft Video Converter Pro for converting VOB videos to MPEG format, head over here and download the free trial version. Next step is to install the program.
Step 2: Run Video Converter Pro and add VOB video files
Now run Aneesoft Video Converter Pro and click the big button "Add..." to add VOB video files on your computer, you may add as many videos as you want to convert to MPEG videos. Only the titles you checked will be converted. So if there're some videos you don't want to convert, you need to uncheck them or 'Remove' them from the right-click menu. 'Clear' in the right-click menu means remove all titles in the list.
Step 3: Edit videos: crop, trim, add effects, add watermark
Wanna edit your videos to make it more personalized? You may add a watermark in Aneesoft Video Converter Pro. Just select the title you'd like to add watermark, then click the button 'Edit' to launch video editing window. If you want to crop video or add some special effects, click the first two tabs. You're able to add a text watermark or an image watermark (you may call it logo) on the output video. Adjust the 'Transparency' to make the watermark look better.
Step 4: Merge some separate VOB videos to 1 single MPEG file
Click on the video titles you'd like to merge to 1 single file, then click 'Merge' button and uncheck the former separate files if you just need the single merged video file. Here 'click on the video titles' is not just check the options, you need to click them to make them highlight. You may see the image below to have an idea.
Step 5: Change the output settings to convert videos with best quality
Choose the most suitable MPEG output format as you want. Besides to MPEG format, there are almost all common video formats available for you to choose to convert. You may convert VOB videos to different video formats for video editing or playback on your mobile devices, such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, cellphone, etc. Remember that the output file size mostly depends on the Bitrate you set. Larger Bitrate, larger file size. Actually video with bitrate as 768 is acceptable for watching.
Step 6: Start converting VOB videos to MPEG videos
Now you may click the big button "Start" to begin converting VOB videos to MPEG videos. Once the convert is complete, Aneesoft Video Converter Pro will place a new version of your MPEG video. Double-click the new MPEG file and play it to make sure it looks as you expect.
