Newbie trying to edit .vob file

Little background... the video department at the local University helped shoot my wife's music video.  The video quality was good, but I think they rushed the final product to get home (we got it back the day they left for summer).  At times the track doesn't match the video (off beat, japanese translation type stuff).  I got a dvd with extra footage but I can't seem to do anything with it.  I figured I could do that good, so I'm giving it a try.  I'm using Adobe Premiere Elements, but it can't read a .vob file.  Any suggestions?  They also gave me a little digital video tape that I have no means of playing.  I'm assuming it's the same footage, but it would be the correct file type, right?  Her current single is #15 this month on the Christian Country Charts, and I need to get this ironed out before her next release in August.  Thanks!

The small tape is most likely miniDV.  Your best bet is to borrow a miniDV camcorder from someone, hook it up via firewire, and transfer the video to your PC for editing.  If you must use the DVD then...try renaming the .vob file as .mpg.  I don't have Premiere (elements or otherwise) but some programs have been known to read DVD files with that workaround.  If that fails you'll either need to extract the MPEG video data from the vob file (DVD ripper software) or find an editor that will work right from the DVD.  I use Sony Vegas 6 which does import from DVDs (I assume do to the proliferation of DVD camcorders).
You really will be better off though pulling the video from the DV tape.  DVD uses MPEG2 lossy compression.  It's fine as a delivery format but not great for editing.
JTC
 

Ever heard of Google?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=edit+VOB&meta=

I got all these hits with a simple search: edit VOB

Yes, I did a search, but I wasn't having any luck with the various programs they were suggesting.  As it turns out by simply renaming the extension as mpg, Premiere can import it with with no problem.  Now I just have to learn how to run it. 

thanks

Cool     Premiere can seem a bit daunting but it's a really nice program, and it also integrates with Audition, so for example you can 'send' the audio of your video in Premiere straight to Audition without having to export it first .. but always work with copies of your files when doing this ok!

Great, thanks for the tip!