• Adobe Premiere Pro

  MPEG Audio

  Posted by Lloyd Coleman on November 27, 2007 at 2:53 am

  I need to pull some video from a DVD (unprotected) into PPro 3.

  I can copy the VOB file from the DVD, rename it mpeg, and import it into Premiere fine, however, there is no audio with the file. When I play the renamed file in Windows Media Player the audio is there, but gets dropped when imported into Premiere. I am not familiar enough with mpeg audio and muxing, etc to know how to do this.

  What is the best or easiest way to get the audio as well as the video from a DVD into Premiere Pro 3?

  Thank you.

  Lloyd Coleman replied 18 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mike Velte

  November 27, 2007 at 12:03 pm

  It is likely that the audio is Dolby and not editable. There are other pitfalls with your workflow. The best method is to play the DVD from a stand alone player to a Analog/Digital converter or DV camcorder and then via firewire capture in Premiere.
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  Mike Velte

  November 27, 2007 at 2:13 pm

  Just found this solution on Wrigley’s forum;

  Maybe this will help:
  If you’ve got Encore CS3 installed , copy the file ad2ac3dec.dll from the Encore CS3 directory and paste it into the PPro CS3 root directory. Once you restart CS3, you’ll be able to import the file with the audio. This means if you’ve already have a project with the files imported, you’ll need to remove the files from the project and then re-import them, or just start over with a new project.
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  Jon Barrie

  November 27, 2007 at 10:18 pm

  If this really works we should make some kind of post for it! Haven’t tried it yet, but just drop it into the main PProCS3 directory? not another folder inside that?
  – Jon 🙂
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  Lloyd Coleman

  November 28, 2007 at 11:25 am

  Thanks Mike. I tried this and it almost worked for me. I copied the file from Encore and dropped it in the main PPro3 folder. Premiere would then recognize the files as having audio and conform them when I imported. The only problem is that for me only the first 15-20 seconds of audio was there for each clip. During the conforming stage it appeared that it conformed the whole clip judging from the time it took. I tried this on about 20 different clips and got the same result.

  My solution was to demux just the audio portion of each clip to an mpa file using MPEG Streamclip (free program) and then link the audio to the unconverted (but re-named from VOB to MPEG) video file.

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