I then have the option of editing a copy of these 'raw' to experiment with brightness/color etc which I assume would then involve transcoding? In the end, these resultant MP4 videos will be the 'raw' ones that I will store and keep. When I mean 'editing', I'm talking about more of trimming/cutting out the unwanted video parts. Can I obtain lossless quality in the conversion from VOB to MP4 by using FFmpeg? If so, what are the instructions? Is there a better and easier way? Then can I use a program like Abobe Premiere Elements to edit these MP4s and still result in lossless quality videos? I am now agonizing over how to do my next step, which is to organize and edit all this information (based on events/dates etc) and convert it all into individual MP4 files (most popular file type).

I think this was the best way to get the best possible quality (lossless?) video from my VHS tapes into a preliminary digital format. This resulted in VOB-type files which in turn I copied to my desktop. I recently used a 2016 VHS/DVD player/recorder to copy video from my VHS tapes (home movies) to writable DVDs on the same machine.

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