• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Footage from DVD-camcorders

  Posted by Pete Burger on July 18, 2012 at 10:16 am

  Have to edit a wedding-project that contains footage of a DVD-camcorder (Mini-DVD). Copied the file structure onto my HDD and inported the VOBs directly into Premiere Pro CS5, because I wanted to avoid transcoding.
  Everything seemed fine. But when loading the footage into the source-monitor of Premiere, the files where only a couple of seconds long.
  The DVDs are (as far as I can see) o.K., they play in my DVD-player and I can play them with the Windows Media-Player.

  Thought maybe it’s my sytem (Win7 – 64Bit) plus I never edited native DVD-footage before, so I tried the same thing with a non-copy protected pay-DVD. Copied the file-structure onto my HDD, opened the VOBs in Premiere. Everything works perfectly.

  After a hours of experimenting, I found the most stable way is to transcode the files with a freeware called DVD2AVI into DV-footage. I can open these files and edit them with no further problems.

  Any ideas what might be the problem? What’s the difference between footage from a DVD-camcorder and a pay-DVD? Is there a more elegant way to edit the footage without transcoding it?

  Thanks for any suggestions!

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  Chris Borjis

  July 18, 2012 at 4:23 pm

  could be the GOP structure on that particular recording
  is wonky and premiere isn’t recognizing all of them.

  fortunately most of those dvd to video file utilities can reconstruct
  and give you the full duration.

  another freeware that converts vob to other codecs is mpeg stream clip.
  i use it just about every week.
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  Pete Burger

  July 18, 2012 at 4:46 pm

  Thanks, Chris!

  MPEGStreamclip didn’t work with MPEG2 files on this computer. I would have to install Quicktime Alternative or buy the MPEG2 component. Can’t do that here…

  But thanks a bunch for the hint with the GOP structure! Haven’t thought about it. Could be that! Maybe demuxing, cleaning the video stream (did that at home with videos I recorded with my TV-stick to be able to burn them on DVD) and importing the split streams into Premiere. I’ll give that a try.

  Thanks again!

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