Well, I’ve tried not to let more than a day or so pass between posts. Unfortunately, the last few days have seen Vista totally screw up my video card configuration and nothing I did seemed to get it corrected. Had to start all over again. Well, actually, I booted back into the WindowsXP drive I still had hanging around under a dual boot.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the lady of the house wanted me to add a couple of menu selections to a DVD she had. That took some more finagling. Finally figured that one out, too. Adobe Premiere Elements doesn’t like .VOB or .MPG files very much. And all the digging around led me down all kinds of weird pathways. I was downloading all kinds of converters. None of which worked, by the way.

So anyway, I finally ran across a site that suggested that I simply change the .vob to a .mpg file and import them into Windows Movie Maker. Worked like a charm!

As I write this, the file is being saved as a single DV-AVI file which should allow me to then import that into Premiere so that I can create the menus that I want. Movie Maker may have that capacity, but since I’m not real familiar with it, decided better the devil I know. So, I’ll pull the file into Premiere, add the menu and go on about my business.

In other news, I’ll be back to writing something worthwhile in a couple of days. Right now I’m just trying to get my schedule settled out and figure out how best to work this blogging thing into my routines.