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Best CODEC to use when converting .VOB files for editing?
Title pretty much says it all. Should I use MPEG II? I thought MPEG II was the native CODEC for DVDs? I’m sure completely uncompressed would be the best, but there is no way I have the disk space for that.
Thanks all!
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VOB files are MPEG2 video with either PCM or AC3 audio for NTSC DVD or PCM, AC3, or MPEG2 audio for PAL DVD. You can edit the native MPEG2 format just fine. I would not convert it so something else unless you were going to to a lot of post processing and needed a format that could stand up to multiple renders.
I also would not edit the VOB files. Use File | Import | DVD Camcorder Disc and let Vegas import it as native MPEG2.
~jr
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Here’s a trick that I came across a few months ago.
Importing a DVD into Vegas -
Ok, well the files are all in VOB right now. I pulled them off a DVD to my computer. I didn’t think you could import VOB files to Vegas? Am I wrong about that? I’m still using Vegas 8. (The video is a recording I made of a bunch of my old stuff with an external DVD recorder, so no worries about copyright infringement here)
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Ok, well the files are all in VOB right now. I pulled them off a DVD to my computer. I didn’t think you could import VOB files to Vegas? Am I wrong about that? I’m still using Vegas 8. (The video is a recording I made of a bunch of my old stuff with an external DVD recorder, so no worries about copyright infringement here)
Ok, scratch that, I get it now. Thanks!
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Thanks!
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[Ryan Roberts] ” I pulled them off a DVD to my computer. I didn’t think you could import VOB files to Vegas? Am I wrong about that?”
You can only import VOB’s as MPEG2 if they are still in the DVD VIDEO_TS structure. Some people have renamed the .VOB to .MPG with success but this doesn’t always work. Some have just dropped the VOB onto the timeline. Again this doesn’t always work. You may only get the first view minutes of video. Your best bet is to import from the DVD’s VIDEO_TS folder and let Vegas convert the VOB to a proper MPEG2 file.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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hahaha!!! i didn’t know that. me and my vegas are rather very good friends for years but he (or maybe it is she?) suprises me every day. no more vob2mpeg convertions, lol!!!
thanx people
paul
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