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VOB to MPEG2
Anyone with any experience of converting DVD VOB files to MPEG2? Need to get some files off discs that were made on a Pioneer DVD recorder and then author them up with menus in DVDA. Am I right in thinking that DVDA will not have to re-encode these files as they are already MPEG2 compliant? Given that they will fit onto the new discs that is!
Chris Young
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4 Replies
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Sorry Chris but Vegas will re-encode anything you give it.
I’ve had to do this in the past and the quality hit wasn’t that bad but it is still noticeable.
Womble and Video ReDo are two apps that are recommended for editing VOB files as they don’t re-encode. -
Mike,
Ah well! I have run into another couple of issues. Used the import media from ‘Camcorder DVD Disc’ function in Vegas and it did a great job of converting the DVD VOB files to MPEG2, pretty quick as well. Great! I thought, won’t have to render in DVDA so very quick project preparation. Problem is that the original video that was captured on the DVD recorder was 16:9. Now the VOB’s when converted by Vegas come in as 4:3 aspect ratio MPEG’s. Put these into a 16:9 DVDA project and what happens? The menus appear as 16:9 but the resultant MPEG files are 4:3 ratio but the images are full height anamorphic, tall skinny people. Still thinking this one through! If it comes to the worst I guess it means going the long way around, capturing the original AVI’s and doing the full render bit in DVDA or ProCoder. I was just trying to short circuit the render times involved as some of these AVI’s are three to three and a half hours long. Thanks for the suggestions anyway, always open to ideas!
Chris Young
Sydney -
Check http://www.squared5.com
It’s called MPEG StreamClip,it’s free and perfect for DVD files exporting -
Yannis
Thanks! I’ve got MPEG StreamClip and use it a bit but in this case it still hasn’t sorted out my aspect ratio problem. I ended up letterboxing the 16:9 into a 4:3 job. Client was happy but I’ve gotta sort this weird conversion thing out. It only seems to happen with VOB’s from some domestic DVD recorders.
Chris Young
Sydney
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