DVD Capture Vs. Import Questions

[Matt Schwartz]

Well as usual this is a working post, found out you can directly paste .VOB files, who knew, it’s certainly not in any of the SONY help topics! Ok, while I can obviously directly edit .VOB files, my take is that this is not what I want to do, probably I need to render these to some other intermediate and then EDIT THOSE, is there a blog I can refer to for this? **I see I cannot directly import .VOB files- NOTHING happens. WHAT IS THE OPTIMAL PROCEDURE HERE TO EDIT A FULL LENGTH MOVIE PLUS TRAILER ON DVD, MAKE EDITS AND THEN RE-BURN USING DVD ARCHITECT…….BASED ON MY EARLIER POST. IMPORT appears to DIE after reading the first VOB file which is the trailer….Is there a newer book out for Sony Vegas that discusses all these tricks, how-to’s and CODECS in depth? Thanks.

[Edward Troxel]

To get the video from the DVD into Vegas, I would use File – Import – DVD Camcorder Disc. Then just drop them on the timeline, edit as desired, and output as desired.

If File – Import doesn’t work, here’s how I always did it in previous versions:

DVD player -> analog -> camera/deck/convertor -> firewire -> computer capturing as a standard DV-AVI file.

DVDAVI is much easier/faster to edit than MPEG2 (which is also what the VOB files are).

After editing, to go back to DVD, look at Vol 4 #1 and Vol 1 #7 of my newsletters.

Edward Troxel

[Matt Schwartz]

1) I can drop .vob files directly onto the timeline, they seem to be MPEG-2! Whew, this seems much quicker than anything else! Any problem editing these directly and then rendering these / burning these to DVD? Yes I do see you mention that AVI is much faster to edit……….

2) I attempt to import VOB files directly (import media), click to do it, it just moves it to the all media folder instantaneously, which seems to do the exact same thing as (1) above.

3) I attempt to CAPTURE an entire DVD, it dies after doing the first tiny 2.5 minute trailer which is essentially the first .vob file (taking 45 minutes to do so) THIS SEEMS like it would take a HUGE amount of time, many HOURS to import the entire DVD!

4) I do not see the advantage in doing an .AVI capture, obviously it’s got to decompress / compress gigabytes of data….what am I not getting here…again, any general resources that discuss this more fully……….

[Edward Troxel]

No matter how you do it, you’re decompressing. If #1 works for you, that’s what I’d do.

Edward Troxel

[Alper Kasap]

Hello,

Im having a similar problem editing in Sony Vegas 7.

I have a DVD with film rushes that was shot on 35mm film. When you watch the CD in media player you can see 6 different chapters of film rushes which goes for about 1 hour in lenght.

Now i would like to edit these rushes in Sony vegas 7, so i go to * File / Import / DVD Camcorder Disc – i go to my folder with the VOB files and click on import.

Now the problem is in the “project media” section i can see the files have been imported as MPEG, but i import say 6 VOB files and i only see 4 MPEG files imported. For some reason some chapters or some of the footage on the disc doesnt get imported. So basically it only imports about 40 minutes of an hour footage.

I need help urgently as i cant edit as im missing scenes which for some reason Sony vegas 7 does NOT import..

HELP !!!

Thks Alper Kasap

[Edward Troxel]

Here’s a way to import from a DVD that seems to always work (unless the DVD is protected):

1. Connect the DVD player to a convertor/camera via analog
2. Connect the convertor/camera to the computer via firewire
3. Open the standard SD capture program and turn OFF “Scene Detection”
4. Press Play on the DVD player and capture on the computer.

This will give you a standard DV-AVI file you can edit.

Edward Troxel