• Adobe Premiere Pro

  It Thinks My Video is Shorter Than It Actually Is

  Posted by James Murphy on February 28, 2011 at 7:49 pm

  I’m trying to copy a (legal) DVD an edit some things out for a client. The DVD plays fine, and normally Premiere doesn’t give me such a hard time with this. There are 4 VOB files. The last 3 play fine in Premiere, but Premiere seems to think the first is only 13 seconds; it’s actually 33 minutes.

  Is there a way I can get Premiere to recognize the true length of the video? If not in Premiere, how can I make it work externally?

  Thanks ahead.

  Vince Becquiot replied 15 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Vince Becquiot

  February 28, 2011 at 8:35 pm

  Hi James,

  This is actually not that uncommon. It depends on how the DVD was encoded. One solution is to get a copy of an Mpeg converter. I like Tmpgenc’s Video Master Works, they have a DVD conversion wizard that pretty much achieves a perfect conversion to uncompressed in a couple of clicks. You could also try bringing them directly into Adobe Media Encoder, or After effects and see if you have better luck.

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area

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