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DVD files shortened/condensed upon import
I bought a DVD at a flea market today, wrestling video, UK release but was still sealed. I knew they were kind of “second hand” made DVDs or whatever you want to call them. Not full production releases. Whatever, that’s not important. Anyway, I wanted to try and clean up some of the video/audio on Premiere/Audition.
I pulled the Video_TS folder off, change the two VOB files to MPG and imported to Premiere as normal. Crazy thing is, for a 3 hour long DVD, it only gave me 2 minutes of imported footage! I’ve never seen this. Yet, if I play the MPGs in Win Media Player, it says it’s only 2:00 or so long, but will continue to play even after the indicator is at the end!
What the heck?
Can someone please…
1) Explain how that is possible.
2) let me know if there’s a way to import the entire video without running it off the DVD player into Premiere.Thanks
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4 Replies
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I have seen that several times using Premiere Elements and have given up on that route. I play the DVD through my A/D converter and capture as DV.
Also try VideoRedo Plus. It allows for chopping up Mpeg files and reassembling without recompression. -
I would suggest using a FREE program called MediaCoder. It will convert a huge amount of audio and video file types, including .VOB (video objects), as well as MPEG 1, 2 and 4 amongst others.
https://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/index.htm
I have found excellent practical use from this application in the last 6 months or so.
Another thing that you can try is changing the extension from .VOB to .m2v. Although allegedly identical to the .MPG extension, for some inexplicable reason it does seem to work on occasion when the .MPG change does not. I have not figured out why this occurs, but this is just an observation from real-world testing over the last 3 or 4 years. I have yet to find anything describing this phenomenon in any of the many DVD specification white papers or books I have read, but it is what it is.
Try MediaCoder, I believe it will solve your problem and the price couldn’t get any better than it already is.
Scot
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I appreciate the replies. I downloaded MediaCoder but have had no luck. It requested I install Firefox, so I did. But, that didn’t help. I keep receiving the “No file outputed” message after it tries to convert the VOB’s for like 2 seconds. I tried several different settings and nothing seemed to work. I’m not a video-novice, just hate when these programs have a old-looking hard to follow interface and then just throw errors at me with no explaination.
Any other help on this?
Thanks
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A Analog/Digital converter is the only way to go. Ads Tech Pyro A/V Link is less than $200.
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