OT: Video Editing

["Sullivan, Glenn" <gsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the OT post, but I know there are some video heads here on the
list...

I have a DVD that someone made for me that I'd like to edit.

It is a wide screen format video, but at some point, someone squashed it
to fit on a 4:3 screen...

I really just want to squash it back.

At this point, my process is hugely cumbersome, and I'm sure that there
is a way to do what I want to easier.

Now, what I'm doing is:

1. Extract the VOB's (2 of them) with DVD Decrypter.
2. Open each one with "VirtualDub MPEG2"
3. Apply a Resize Filter to take it from 352x240 to 352x150 with a
letterbox frame to the original 352x240 size.  Save the resultant AVI
with no compression (VirtualDub MPEG2 can only import MPEG, AFAIK)
4. Repeat step 3 for VOB #2
5. Again in VirtualDub, open the first VOB's AVI (44 GB) and then
"Append AVI segment" with the other VOB's AVI (22 GB).  Switch to
Direct
Stream Copy and save the resultant 66 GB AVI.
6. Encode the 66GB AVI with TMPegEnc back to 352x240 NTSC
"mini-DVD"
7. Build a new DVD in DVD-Lab, adding the demuxed output of TMPegEnc as
the movie.

This is a long drawn out process, when all I really want is the ability
to apply the resize filter directly to the VOB files, which, to my
knowledge, are just MPEG2 files...

Anyone know of a tool to fit the bill?

Thanks in advance,

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.