Unfortunately DVD Architect does not directly deal with VOB files. You therefore cannot easily create compilations from prevsiously created DVDs. Bummer. I've wrote a request for this feature in the DVD-A forum a few days back, but no one has responded to it, so I guess it is not considered a hot topic or a priority. Seems to ME that it is pretty darned important since everyone is going to have their video on DVDs over the coming months and years, and they are going to want to grab pieces of it and produce new DVDs. Obviously people don't want to horse around with the workarounds (i'll describe one below), and they sure as heck don't want to have to re-encode everything.

What I do now is use DVD2AVI (a shareware program available at www.dvdhelp.com and elsewhere). Using this program, you can demux the audio from a whole series of VOB files. You then place the VOB files on the Vegas timeline, and then place on an audio timeline the single WAV audio file that DVD2AVI creates. You then edit and then -- unfortunately -- re-render to an MPEG file using the DVD Architect template for MPEG-2 and the AC3 template for audio. You then fire up DVD Architect and proceed normally.

Pretty gruesome, don't you think? I'm probably being incredibly stupid, and if someone wants to call me stupid, please do, but you have to follow up the insult with a description of a better (faster and with no re-rendering) way to do this.