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Best way to copy DVD clips
A client wants me to make a montage using clips from old VHS tapes that she copied to a DVD using a DVD recorder. I am wondering what is the best way to do it. I assume I could connect the DVD player to one of my digital camcorders and capture the clips from the camcorders firewire connection into the computer. Is there a better way? I am wondering how much resolution will be lost. TIA, Jim
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Going from VHS to DVD and now from DVD to something you can make a further DVD? I think the “process” is less of an issue than what the final quality will look like!
Your process is the:
DVD > AV > DV(conversion) > F/w > VidCap (Vegas) > Vegas
OR how about
Place DVD into pc DVD player/burner and go:
Vegas > File > Import > DVD Camcorder Disc
Then you will have a Project Media pane full of the stuff, which you can place on the timeline and pick n mix.
Here’s a thought, and I know you did NOT ask for one – an inter-dub DVD<>DVD device – but maybe there is such a device out there? My understanding is that the files on the DVD, mpeg2 and ac3, are “delivery” formats files, made for DVD authoring. I have not done much mpeg2 > edit > further mpeg2 process for DVD creation? I have used DVDShrink, which has some great abilities – I have used it to copy from one of my own DVDs to another, and there were some editing options. Memory failing here! So maybe there is another s/w that will disentangle the VOBs and so on, fire editing WITHOUT further compression? Maybe THAT is what you should be looking at?
Interesting . . .
Grazie
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Well, there’s a thing.
I just tried with one of my own DVDs and it must now be bad, ‘cos it isnt importing to VEgas. Anyway, now I am trialing some s/w “VOB2MPEG” free s/w to see if I can force the import of at least VOBs to MPEGs externally to Vegas – and this from a “suspect” DVD of mine. VOBs are the DVD files on the DVD.
I’ll let you know how I get on.
Grazie
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Yup. VOB2MPG v2.5 worked.
Got the MPG file and loaded that into Vegas. Both video and audio streams working fine.
Grazie
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I have had mixed results just as Grazie has. Some times I can just drop the VOB file on the timeline and it works. Sometimes Vegas | File | Import | DVD Camcorder Disc works. Sometimes you need to rename the VOB files to MPG while on others I have had to use VOB2MPG. One of those recommendations from Grazie should work.
~jr
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Thanks, Grazie and John. I will try these ideas and report back. Jim
Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 4.5 Excalibur
P4 2.0 GHz
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When import from camcorder disc doesn’t work you can import media, then drop down type and select all files, then the VOB files will show up and can be dragged to the timelilne. But before you can edit, you have to save as and copy media to a hard drive, otherwise your computer will still try and read the files from the DVD.
Hope this helps, Danny Hays -
Grazie,
OT, may I ask where you are from? Jim
Vegas Pro 8 DVDA 4.5 Excalibur
P4 2.0 GHz
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“OT, may I ask where you are from? ” Sure!
Grazie
( not Italy! )
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You may also look into a program called “Cinematize”. It costs a bit of money but it’s worth every penny.
Allen
ASX Media Group, Inc.
http://www.asxvideo.com
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As a side note John with regards to VOB files and such. Whenever I have tried to drop a VOB file or rename it and drop it on the time line it will truncate it to a very small portion of the original. The properties will show all the correct info however with regards to file size and length. In prior conversations with SONY about this they simply stated that VOB is not a supported format and that the import function is the only way. I’m not crazy about that function as it has it short comings. Renaming has never tricked the software for me as it still will truncate it. If this was easy it would not be so much “FUN??”
Joe
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