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VOB files appear too short in Adobe Premier Pro
I am having some trouble with getting VOB files in Premiere Pro CS5.
They import with out error but when placed in the timeline they are only a few seconds long when in fact they are should be 15-30mins.
I have 16 vob files, some present this error some don’t (they play fine in various media players).
I thought I had solved the issue when I renamed the file extensions from VOB to MPG but while the videos appears complete the audio stops after a few seconds just as the video did before.
I attempted to use Virtual Dub to rip the audio to a WAV file but on import premiere states the compression type is unsupported. I have also tried to use virtual dub to convert the VOB files to AVI but again Premiere does not like the audio and have no sound when placed in the timeline.
They play fine in Windows Media Player and such but a notable issue in VLC (that might be related), they play fine but the scrub bar in the timeline does not move, but instead stays at its initial start point and when I select it to move it the movie jumps back to this point.
My current work around is to run them through Auto GK how ever it takes an hour a file, and that rate its currently impractical.
I have read that there are issues with VOB files and priemere in general but if anyone can suggest something im missing or that can get the VOB files to work it would extremely helpful.
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I think it may have something to do with keyframes in the files, and maybe just the fact that it’s temporal compression, although I’ve had good luck with most VOBs by just changing the file extension.
Here’s some troubleshooting info which may help you out:
https://premierepro.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ:How_do_I_import_VOB_files_/_edit_a_DVD%3F
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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VOB from dvd recorders are known to cause issues.
If you have a camera with analog in connect the dvd player to the camera and the camera with firewire to the pc. This way you can capture dv-avi.———————————————–
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Thanks for the replies.
As it was I took the long way around and continued to convert them with Auto GK.
For these that are interested I had 16 VOBs in total, 4 DVDs with 4 VOBs each, so I used DVD shrink to save each DVD into a single VOB, and then used Auto GK to convert them to 4 AVI files.
It took about an hour to do each file but it worked in the end.
Joseph: Thanks, but the link times out for me.
Ann: Thanks for the tip.
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We recently had to work with a lot of DVD’s for a project, and discovered some issues with using the VOB’s. First of all, there is a file size limitation which may force a title to span multiple VOB’s. Next, if you load the VOB’s sequentially into a sequence, there may or may not be a seamless transition at the edit points. This occurred even when renaming the files to ‘mpg’. However, we stumbled upon a really nice solution. We happened to have Nero Multimedia 10 installed which we generally have used solely for disc burning, but read somewhere that the included ‘editor’ – ‘Nero Vision’ – would load the titles and allow you to export into whatever format you needed. Well, we discovered that it’s even better than described. When Nero Vision loads a title from a DVD, it actually creates a single MPEG for the entire title, stitching the VOB’s together, and from the looks of it, it isn’t actually re-encoding the files, but using the original VOB’s, stitching them together seamlessly, and then rewrapping as an MPEG-2. It does this quite quickly, which lead me to feel that there is no actual re-encoding going on.
Steve Brame
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Steve, like you, I have Nero’s Vision 10 but use PPro 5 for post. I loaded the VOB files that had been extracted from one of our old DVDs that we no longer had the original footage for and am outputting to Mpeg 2. I did not tweak the settings under ‘Configure’, and am currently rendering it as a test. When you say “When Nero Vision loads a title from a DVD, it actually creates a single MPEG for the entire title, stitching the VOB’s together, and from the looks of it, it isn’t actually re-encoding the files, but using the original VOB’s, stitching them together seamlessly, and then rewrapping as an MPEG-2”, do you mean that you are importing the VOBs into Vision as individual files? When they are on the timeline prior to rendering to an Mpeg 2, they area a series of clips, end-to-end, just like any other NLE timeline. Can you clarify? Vision is scary fast when rendering. Last year we used the older version of Vision to render out, with tweaks in Configure, some HD files, and it was the same speed demon – but the files looked and worked great. Go figure!
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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In Nero Vision’s initial menu select ‘Make Movie or Slide Show’.
In the ‘My Media’ window’s ‘Video’ tab, right-click and select ‘Import Disc’.
Vision will automatically search your DVD drive, and present you with a list of the ‘titles’ on the DVD. Keep in mind this is independent of the VOB files. An individual DVD ‘title’ may have multiple VOB’s in it. You choose which ‘titles’ you wish to import, and Vision will then create a single MPEG2 of each video title, ready for use in PPro.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
Thanks Steve, will give it a try tomorrow.
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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