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Big headake
After a week editing a 3hrs long raw wedding footage I gave the edition to the client. After a week she call me today to correct a minor disapoint.(to me) (mother of the groom elbowing her husband to pay attention to the shooting) This scene is repeated 2 times consecutive. Unknown reason for this)
The worst is that precisely today, half hr before she called in, I delete all footage from my PC. I thought that I could find the rendered avi files for Encore or could be in some auto safe….or maybe making a restore point but can’t find any rendered file and my last restore date was in August 2. ALL IS GONE!
The last chance is capturing the DVD (her copy because I don’t get any) knowing this will decrease the final quality. (I warned her of this but she still want to go ahead.
I know there is a way to rename the VOB files to make mpeg able to PP2 but I had try it and never got any good results.
Any of you, guys, know a simple way to rename the VOB files? The time I did the audio is out of sync for a lot and the files are always the same repetition.
I have watched a tutorial by Bob Garret but still I have making something wrong.
What is best to keep the quality: capture the DVD playback of rename the files??
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5 Replies
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If renaming them didn’t work, (it’s always 50/50 with mpeg2), then you’ll have to split the VOB into video and audio, but your best bet would be converting it to a another format (uncompressed is the key here since since you are going to have to recompress again to put it back on a DVD). That was covered in previous posts, here’s one:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=3&postid=867142
BTW, system restore wouldn’t work for your footage since it usually only restores system files, not deleted documents.
Good luck,
Vince
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If you’ve burned the DVD in Encore, chances are you should be able to copy the VOB file and rename it for import into PPro. Sometimes, I have to rename it using through the Command Prompt feature in windows – that allows you to change the file extension from VOB to MPG.
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A simpler solution to a big headache:
if all you want to do is get rid of one shot/sequence, then you don’t have to use Premiere at all, and you won’t lose any quality due to recompression: just use one of the many freeware or cheap mpeg tools to cut out the “offending” scene. I recommend WOBBLE or MPEG2SCHNITT. Then re-author, finito.
Or you could use the original DVD and set a chapter point at the offending scene, and instruct Encore to jump to next chapter (after funny-but-not-so-amusing shot)
good luck,
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you cannot re-capture the project? If you captured from DV tape, you can batch digitize the project.
The time it takes may be about the same as monkeying around with a workaround.I never delete footage until client says it is ok
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Maybe you’ve solved it allready.
In case you didn’t i suggest using MPEG streamclip(it’s free on http://www.squared5.com) and extract any part or the whole DVD straight from the disc as .m2v files, cut the scene using your authoring software and build the disc again.
Good luck with the client..
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