Import VOB Files to Timeline

[Paul Gilmore]

Are you rendering the footage in Vegas as mpeg2 and audio in vegas and then importing it into DVDA?

[Duane Weed]

This is before I render – when I bring all the clips to the timeline and play between them there is a jump in video and audio – not smooth like it should be.

The same little imperfection happens when I render it out to an mpeg or avi etc. It renders what I see on the timeline.

I like this feature in Vegas, however it does not make a clean edit between clips.

Appreciate any help on this. Gotta go for now – meetings.
dw

DW Video & Multimedia, LLC
“Using Today’s Media To Market Your Business”

[Mike Kujbida]

Duane, this is due to how one VOB file ends and the other begins.

Thanks to John Meyer on another Vegas forum for the following tip on how to to get around this problem.
I’ve used it numerous times so I know it works.

If you want to put VOB files into Vegas, then I strongly suggest you use DVD Shrink to first put those VOB files onto your hard drive. This has nothing to do with breaking encryption (you are supposed to only edit material you own). Instead, it has to do with DVD Shrink’s ability to join all VOBs together, and to eliminate the extra streams (audio tracks and subtitles and angles) which Vegas doesn’t know how to handle..

So, open the disc in DVD Shrink. Specify a destination. Go to Edit -> Preferences and on the Output Files tab make sure that “Split VOB files …” is NOT checked.

Then, click on the “Re-author” button. On the right side of the screen, select the DVD Browser and drag the titlesets from your DVD from the right screen to the left screen.

Then, click on the Compression Settings tab. Click on each titleset in the left pane, and you should see for that titleset all the streams associated with it. Uncheck all audio streams except the one you want, and uncheck ALL subtitle streams (the example below doesn’t have subtitle streams, but if it did, they should ALL be unchecked).

[David Shirey]

Wow, as long as I’ve been using Vegas that’s been a tiny little annoyance but hasn’t significantly impacted any projects I’ve worked on. I’ve always just worked around it, but now that I know there’s such an easy solution, I’ll definitely use that in the future. Thanks Mike!

[Mike Kujbida]

Glad to help David.
It’s one more tool to add to the kit 🙂

[Duane Weed]

Thank you Mike

I will download and follow your instructions. Now I can finish the edit and have a cleaner output.
dw

DW Video & Multimedia, LLC
“Using Today’s Media To Market Your Business”

[Mike Kujbida]

Glad to help Duane.
Good luck with the project.

[Duane Weed]

Ever have one of those days…..

Let me begin – the VOB files are from a DVD that was done in my Panasonic set top dvd recorder a few years ago. I now need to make some updates and this is the only good video I have of this program.

I downloaded the program – shrink 3.2. In Preferences I unchecked everything in the output files. – went to backup and set up backup target to Hard Disk & picked a folder to put the files.

Do I need to create Video TS and Audio TS folders or do I uncheck this. All I want is a file that i can bring into Vegas.

Once the file is made, in vegas do I just import media or what?

I have tried to bring in the VOB and it brings in all the individual files and I am back to the same problem when I put them on the timeline.

What have I done wrong, or what step have i missed. Thank you!
dw

DW Video & Multimedia, LLC
“Using Today’s Media To Market Your Business”

[Mike Kujbida]

If you clicked Backup instead of Re-author (an easy mistake), that’s where you went wrong.
You should end up with a single VOB file that can be dropped on your Vegas timeline.

[Duane Weed]

I am still missing something, so sorry.

First off I set preferences the way you suggested. In shrink I go to re-author, set my dvd structure – compression etc. Then it appears the only way to make the files is to make the program do anything is to then click backup. I do this and it makes the VOB folders.

I then go to vegas – import – from dvd camcorder disc and click on the folder with the TS folders in it and it brings in all 15 clips within the folders.

Now going back to shrink – I go to back up and uncheck make TO folders it places on VOB file in the folder. From Vegas click on import – dvd camcorder disk and it will not allow me to see this file.

Again – I am missing one step. Thank you for your patience.
dw

DW Video & Multimedia, LLC
“Using Today’s Media To Market Your Business”