I have this, uh, friend.  He’s a teacher working with a student on a video project, and he kinda told this student that he could, uh, very easily convert video from DVD (.vob) to a format that he could work with in Windows Movie Maker. 
    I This friend needs to get started on that conversion, and he’s found several programs that will do the job — but they all cost around $30.00.  That’s too expensive for me this friend.  The "free" versions of these tools will only convert about half of any particular file without being registered, which isn’t quite what I  my friend needs.  All the files we’re transferring are original work;  the student shot them this month. 
    I know he’s already considered online services — but the files are
really too big for uploading in any reasonable length of time. Any suggestions?  I’ll be sure to let him know.