Audio Gaps when importing DVD file

[Don Smith]

Well, did it again! Should have searched and worked a bit before posting, because I got my answer. Here’s what I found when I searched:

The following tip is credited to John Meyer.
BTW, DVD Shrink is freeware and is available on a number of sites.

If you want to put VOB files into Vegas, then I strongly suggest you use DVD Shrink to first put those VOB files onto your hard drive. This has nothing to do with breaking encryption (you are supposed to only edit material you own). Instead, it has to do with DVD Shrink’s ability to join all VOBs together, and to eliminate the extra streams (audio tracks and subtitles and angles) which Vegas doesn’t know how to handle..

So, open the disc in DVD Shrink. Specify a destination. Go to Edit -> Preferences and on the Output Files tab make sure that “Split VOB files …” is NOT checked.

Then, click on the “Re-author” button. On the right side of the screen, select the DVD Browser and drag the titlesets from your DVD from the right screen to the left screen.

Then, click on the Compression Settings tab. Click on each titleset in the left pane, and you should see for that titleset all the streams associated with it. Uncheck all audio streams except the one you want, and uncheck ALL subtitle streams (the example below doesn’t have subtitle streams, but if it did, they should ALL be unchecked).

Then, click on Backup, specify a destination and make sure that you tell DVD Shrink not to do any shrinking (which if you are copying from a 4.7GB DVD, it will not do).

You will now have one single VOB file which Vegas should like. There should be no audio glitches or gaps, and the audio length should match the video length. You should be able to drop this onto the Vegas timeline and edit with no problems.

I tried this and it worked really nice. However, it took a while to find an actual FREE version of DVD Shrink, lots of the links directed you to sites where they wanted money from me. Here’s the link I found for the actual FREE DVD Shrink version:

https://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/DVD-Shrink-Download-4128.html

[Mike Kujbida]

Here’s what I found when I searched:

Glad you took the time 🙂

However, it took a while to find an actual FREE version of DVD Shrink…

Don, if you’re referring to the Import VOB Files to Timeline thread, I linked to a great site where you could get it for free.

[Terry Esslinger]

What happens if instead you go to file>import.DVD camcorder disc?
Is that where you get the audio gaps?

[Mike Kujbida]

Terry, as long as it’s a short program with a single VOB or individual clips with heads & tails, you’re OK.
It’s when you try to import a continuous program with more than one VOB file that the audio gap issue rears it’s ugly head 🙁
Try it and you’ll see what I mean.

[Don Smith]

The DVD I imported initially had those audio gaps every 5 minutes, so basically if you have more than a 5 minute DVD, you’ll have those gaps. If you aren’t concerned about having a gap, then just importing into vegas is a lot faster and easier. But the DVD Shrink fix really works nicely for a continuous audio file.

[Evan Walker]

Hi!

I’m having this same problem with missing audio gaps when importing DVD to sony vegas!

I tried downloading the program mentioned and going through all the settings, but it still has errors in it.

What else can I try to fix this??? Please help!

This is the only place I can think of that will hopefully solve this problem!

Thank you so much in advance!

[Mike Kujbida]

[evan walker] “I tried downloading the program mentioned and going through all the settings, but it still has errors in it.”

What have you tried to do and what errors are you still getting?

[Evan Walker]

Thanks for your reply! I tried going through the steps of DVD SHRINK that were mentioned, and i believe i did everything correctly, but i was still having the audio imported with a few different chunks, and some audio still missing. I also made sure I set it so it wouldn’t split the tracks in the settings for DVD shrink…

I’ve tried just dragging the main vob (vob’s) to the timeline, from the dvd folder, and it imports it with a much bigger chunk of missing audio. I’ve tried using the “import media” and “imprt from dvd camcorder” setting, and just doesn’t import it properly. I could have sworn that I was able to do this about a year ago, and don’t know what’s happening at this point. Any ideas??

[Jennifer Silorey]

I have battled this issue for many years myself and for the longest time this worked for me and I created a video tutorial to make it easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNS7h-xvrh0

Now I’ve encountered a video that will not import in Shrink. So I’m back to the drawing board on how to change the settings in Sony Vegas 12. This should be easy!?

Jennifer
Iris Productions, LLC
irisproductionsco.com

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[Edward Troxel]

I just copy the DVD folders to the hard drive and then open the .IFO file. There’s no need to use a third party program for that. Windows Explorer can copy the files fine.

On the “Open” box, if you change the selection to “All Files”, you don’t have to know the file name.

Edward Troxel