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Flip Horizontal (Old film conversion – Letters are backward)
Hello,
A friend has a DVD of a compilation of 1940’s actual war film. When assembled (by who? when?) some of the film segments were glued-on but flipped horizontal, so that the street signs, etc. are reversed. This was made into a PAL Videocasette, and ultimately into a PAL DVD.
Two questions, if I may:
1. How do I convert the DVD into something usable for Vegas? (The original film, and the Videocasette are gone. All that remains is this PAL DVD.)
2. How can I “flip horizontal” in Vegas, those sections which are reversed?
Thank you,
John -
6 Replies
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1) Getting DVD media into Vegas has been covered here many, many times.
2) In Pan/Crop right-click and choose Flip Horizontal.
Gary Kleiner
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You will need to split the video clip at the beginning and end of the section that needs to be flipped or you will flip the entire clip. You probably already knew that but thought I’d mention it just in case.
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Thanks!
I don’t do this very often, so it’s good to be reminded. I’ll type an S at either end of the segment(s.)
I read in another thread that if I can extract a video “VOB” from a DVD, and merely change the .VOB into .MPG, then Vegas will be able to use it.
This particular movie has no sound, so I don’t need to worry about audio in this case. But I haven’t a clue what is “demuxing” of audio is. Is that a real word?
John -
You should be able to drop the VOB file directly on the timeline WITHOUT changing the extension to MPG. Give that a try first.
IF the DVD had audio and IF the audio was AC-3 then Vegas would not be able to see it (as you said, not an issue in your case). In that case you have to extract the audio into a format that Vegas CAN see (such as WAV). This process is can be called demuxing (since the process of combining the two initially is called muxing).
Edward Troxel
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The word is actually “demultiplexing” (the opposite of multiplexing) but a lot of people shorten it to “demuxing”.
Good luck.
Dennis
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If the video on your DVD is longer than 1 GB’s worth of MPEG it will be split into 2 or more VOB files. You will need to collect them all and add them to your timeline to get the complete video.
Also, be aware that when the DVD was created the video was compressed and some video quality was lost. If you encode to MPEG-2 a second time to create another DVD you will be lowering the quality even further (think a photocopy of a photocopy). I bring this up because you said it was 1940 vintage film so the quality may not have been that good to begin with. Just so you know to keep your eye out for the quality.
Good luck.
Dennis
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