Can’t bring mpeg files to timeline in V6

[John Rofrano]

Did you import them with File | Import | DVD Camcorder Disc…? Can you play the MPG files outside of Vegas? It sounds like maybe something got corrupt in your Vegas install. It might be worth re-installing Vegas 6 just to make sure all of the software is installed correctly.

~jr

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[Richard Klimesh]

This is a DVD I mastered in DVD Architect and had made from a glass master. (I lost the original files so need to get the program files off the DVD).

Yes, I did import the program with File | Import | DVD Camcorder Disc, which took about 3 hours. It didn’t import directly into Vegas but asked to save to a directory, which I did.

No, the files won’t play with any program because each file, like “VTS_06_1 (01)”, is only 1KB, so something is amiss. I’m importing again right now and will see what I get this time.

Richard Klimesh

[Mike Kujbida]

Richard, see if the techniques I discussed in the Import VOB Files to Timeline thread will work for you.

[Richard Klimesh]

Brilliant, Mike. A quick, simple, elegant solution. Shrink did, however, save the DVD as 47 VOB files, not one big one. But that’s great in this case because I need to work on the files one at a time anyway. Thanks so much.

Richard Klimesh

[Mike Kujbida]

“Shrink did, however, save the DVD as 47 VOB files, not one big one”

That’s not supposed to happen.
It should have been one very large VOB file.
I suspect that the step you missed was:

Go to Edit -> Preferences – Output Files.
Make sure that “Split VOB files …” is NOT checked.

“But that’s great in this case…”

As long as it worked for you, I’m glad 🙂

[Richard Klimesh]

“Split VOB Files” definitely was not checked.

Richard Klimesh

[Mike Kujbida]

I’m going to blame the gremlins then as I have no idea why that would happen 🙂