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How to import a DVD
If you’re like me, you periodically have to import a DVD.
The problem has always been the short gap in the audio and video at the VOB break points.
There are a variety of ways to work around this but now, thanks to Gary James on the Sony Vegas forum, there’s a MUCH better and easier way.
I’ll quote his post verbatim.Vegas allows you to open up a DVD .IFO file. This imports the entire .VOB chain for both video and audio tracks.
Click File / Open, then navigate to your VIDEO_TS sub directory and enter *.IFO in the File name input field. For a regular DVD you will see a VIDEO_TS.IFO, and a VTS_01_0.IFO. Select the VTS_01_0.IFO file and click on Open. Don’t try this on a DVD disk because Vegas will try to build an .sfk file containing audio peaks in the VIDEO_TS directory.
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Mike,
I don’t quite follow what opening this file in Vegas will do or correct. Can you elaborate? Thanks.
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Andrew, if you’ve ever imported a DVD using the File-Import-DVD Camcorder Disc option, you’ll see and hear what I mean.
When a DVD is authored, it creates (depending on the length) a series of VOB files.
If it’s a short project, there will be only be one VOB file and you won’t have this problem.
If there’s more than one, you will.
When you drop two VOB files on the timeline and butt them up against each other, there is always a brief (around 15 frames) dropout of both video and audio information.
Some times it’s not objectionable but sometimes it is.
The technique I described brings in the entire project, no matter how long it is, as one continuous event.
If you had chapter markers on the original DVD, they will show up in the timeline as embedded markers.
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