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.vob files will be the death of me
So, I would like to just receive videos in the formats that I ask for, but sometimes it’s a miracle to get any material out of the client, let alone in a format I want.
So, if I accept that it’s a given that people will give me .vob files, and that I’m going to run into technical problems like the audio gets out of sync if I try using the .vob files directly in Premiere or After Effects…
… then the question is, what are some ways I can take what I’m getting and convert into into something I can use, like an AVI file?
(This is usually in a context of I have to convert these into .flv files at half the resolution to put online, so the DVD compression isn’t the end of the world, but the audio sync problems are annoying.)
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It’s kind of hard searching for this stuff, since there’s a lot of crappy converters that are link-spamming their search results.
But this one looks promising:
https://convertmovie.com/videoconverter/formatref.html -
I’ve had good results with MPEG Streamclip, it’s free software for PC or Mac, rips from DVD to almost any format, also works as an H.264 encoder.
I pull DV .avi files from DVD and use them in Premiere, works great once you come up with the right settings for your situation.
Jeff Pulera
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Hmm. In this thread someone mentions using that converter and having out-of-sync audio.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/240/185It’s version 5, and now they’re on version 9, so maybe they’ve fixed it, but I’m trying out a demo, so I’ll see.
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If VOB files give you trouble, just digitize the video out of a consumer DVD player using your camera or deck or capture card – capture to AVI. Takes real time, which can actually be faster than converting VOB to AVI in the computer. Kind of old fashioned but it works. We do this a lot.
Mike Cohen
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