Audio Skips

[John Rofrano]

Are you saying that it is breaking the files up randomly in the middle while you were recording? That is quite odd. I would try and find the VOB files on the DVD and drag them to your hard drive and rename them MPG and see if that helps.

~jr

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[Garrett Miles]

Not quite…so I have finished movie on dvd that views fine in a dvd player. When I go into vegas it seems I have to use import dvd camcoder disc to get this finished movie into vegas. When I do this, the movie is split into 20 different .mpg files in the project section. I then have to select all the mpg files and drag them into the top edit section. After the peaks are built, if I scroll to the right, I can see where each mpg has a small space where it meets with the next mpg. So if I do nothing and hit play, when it gets to this spot in the movie, you can hear the audio skip or jump for lake of better words. As I mentioned in my first post, someone saying, “I am in the basement, can you hear me” sounds like, “I am in the base, can you hear me”. The word basement is cut short. And I cannot seem to match up the audio so you don’t get that cut or skip.

Hope this makes sense.

[John Rofrano]

It sounds like import dvd camcorder disc is messing things up. I would still try what I suggested. Copy the VOB files to your hard drive and rename them to MPG.

~jr

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[Danny Hays]

You can also import media, drop down the tybe and select all files. The VOB files will then show up in the Vegas explorer. Drag them in order to the time line, then save the Veg file and check save media. Re-open the new Veg file and Vegas will now be reading the VOB files from the hard drive instead of the DVD drive. Edit as you normally would. You can rename them to MPG too if you wish.
Hope this helps, Danny Hays

[Sean Oates]

Not sure what you mean but I’ll take an alternate stab at it…

Vegas tends to put fade in / outs on audio regions. For example, if you split an existing region, there will be a small fade out on the end of region 1a, and a fade in on region 1b. You may need to zoom in to a max level to see this.

So, my point is that perhaps the audio is there, but you’ll need to zoom in and make sure there isn’t a slight fade in / out at each point where one slice meets the next.

[Craig Patterson]

I’d like to resurrect this thread, as I’m having the same issue.

The DVD is not copy-protected, it’s just a DVD burn of some footage – about ninety minutes worth.

When I use Vegas to import DVD Camera tracks, the .VOB files get split up into 250-Meg sections (about six minutes each). They’re not that way on the DVD, they’re 1 Gig each. Once imported, when I click on the filename to look at the properties, I get this:

Video: 720X480 29.970 fps 00:05:57:25
Audio: 48,000 Hz, Stereo 00:05:57:12

Note that the audio and video are not the same length. That’s the heart of the problem.

Simply renaming the files as MPG doesn’t work, as Vegas only recognizes the first five seconds of the resulting file. The audio is not time compressed – there’s a third of a second of audio at the end of the file that’s actually missing.

All of this happens on a Vegas Pro machine, and on a completely different rig with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum. Same exact experience.

I’m going to try ripping the DVD outside of Vegas to see if that works any different, but if anyone’s seen this before, I’d love to be educated.

Craig

[Craig Patterson]

I guess I’ll respond to my own post!

After using several other rippers to experiment, I have to come to the conclusion that Vegas is set up to import from a DVD camcorder disc, but that function should not be used to import from an actual DVD. There is no way to avoid the 1/3-second audio drop in between each chapter boundary.

If you’re importing video only, there’s no issue – each chapter will import as a separate file, and they can be butted together with no loss. But audio cannot be done the same way.

Craig