dvd to avi to dvd?

[Gavin Impett]

Hi,
this comes up quite a bit and unless things have changed with vegas 6 you can’t do it directly with vegas.

videohelp has all the tools you need.

basically, to use vegas, you need to decript,to your hard-drive, change the file extentions from .vob to mpg, then demux the audio, meaning extact the audio into a file that Vegas can read and then reattach the video and audio file on the timeline.

Just understand if you use Vegas, you are recompressing files that are already compressed, meaning reduced quality.

Gavin

[Allen Zagel]

Just a thought, but what if you played the DVD in your compuer and used a screen capture program like Camtasia? I would think you would have a fresh AVI file then that you could work on.

With Camtasia, you can set your quality settings. I haven’t tried it but it may be worth a try.

Allen

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[Leslie Wand]

thanks allen,

interesting senario…. anyone tried this?

leslie

[Terje A. bergesen]

I’m pretty sure it would not work. Most DVD software uses DirectX to display their movies, this means that the DVD player “punches a hole” in the screen where it is to display the movie. Using camtasia or simiar screen capture software you would probably not see a movie, just a black square.

Try it your self by playing the DVD and then pressing Print Screen. Copy the image into a paint program. If you can see the image, camtasia would work. If you get a black box (most likely) it would not.

This is why most DVD players have their own screen capture from the DVD menu.

[Rich Stahle]

If you have a DV camera connect the outputs of your DVD player to the camera and transfer from DVD to miniDV etc on your camera then capture to your computer using Vegas Capture.

Simple.

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[Enrique Orozco]

1.- DVD2AVI (with VFAPIconverter)
2.- Use AVI + audio(WAV) in Vegas
3.- Render 2 DVDPAL ..or whatever you want

… pretty simple.

[Leslie Wand]

well,what a lot of advice! thanks everyone!

as it turned out i did the following

used womble wizard to extract dvd to mpg (no video re-encoding, but got mp2 audio).

loaded above into v5 as default ntsc project then rendered out as pal dv.

results look pretty bloody good.

would have been much better if they could have supplied original master thouigh…

thanks again for all the help,

leslie

[John Gregoriades]

Hi,
What is a “womble wizard” please?
John

[Leslie Wand]

https://www.womble.com/

leslie