How to Convert VOB Files from a DVD to Windows Movie Maker

I have footage on a burnt DVD that I want to put onto YouTube. Here's the thing: I was able to transfer the VOB files onto my hard drive, but I can't drag them into the windows movie maker. What do I need to do here?

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Windows Movie Maker does not support VOB files, if you want to import VOB files onto Windows Movie Maker, the first thing you should do is to convert them to Windows Movie Maker supported media formats.

Windows Movie Maker supported formats for importing content
Video files: .asf, .avi, .wmv
Movie files: MPEG1, .mpeg, .mpg, .m1v, .mp2
Audio files: .mp3, .wav, .snd, .au, .aif, .aifc, .aiff
Windows Media files: .asf, .wm, .wma, .wmv
Images: .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif, .gif

Here we recommend you convert VOB file to WMV (the default format of Windows Movie Maker) with Aimersoft Video Converter. Download the Video Converter here.

1Load VOB files from your hard drive

After install and run Video Converter, please click to load vob files or drag the files to the program directly.

2 Set output format and destination folder

Set output format from "Profile" drop down list; then click "Browse" to select the destination folder for converted files if you want to change the default folder.

3Edit VOB files

This VOB to WMV program is very helpful in some video editing work. Such as video cropping, video splitting, video merging, subtitles adding, special effects adding, etc., you can edit the video easily and create your unique video with this program.

4 Click "Start" to convert VOB to WMV

After all preparation finished, just click "Start" to convert VOB files to Windows Movie Maker compatible media format.While converting video, you can preview the video and set the actions like shut down computer and open output folder when conversion completed.

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