Import VOB Files to Timeline

[Mike Kujbida]

Don’t apologize Duane.
I got confused following it and I’ve done it before 🙂
Let’s try this again with a few minor changes.

#1. Open the disc in DVD Shrink.

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

#3. 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.

The DVD I’m using for this test only has one title and it’s called Title 1.

#4. 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).

This wasn’t necessary in my test as the total program was only 45 min. with no subtitles or other audio streams.

#5. Now click “Backup!” (contrary to what I said but it works for me) and specify a destination folder somewhere on your hard drive.
Make sure that Create VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS subfolders is NOT checked.
Click OK and wait for DVD Shrink to do its thing.

#6. After it’s done, open the destination folder.
You should see some .BUP and .IFO files in the there along with a single very large .VOB file.
This is the file that you drag and drop on your Vegas timeline.
There’s no need to do the File-Import-DVD Camcorder Disk procedure.

Hope it works for you this time and my apologies for the confusion.

[Duane Weed]

OK, I now have the large VOB file in a folder.

Drag it over to the timeline and it shows a small clip. It only plays the video in that small clip when I expand it.

What is my next step?

Thanks again.
dw

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

[Mike Kujbida]

“Drag it over to the timeline and it shows a small clip. It only plays the video in that small clip when I expand it.
What is my next step?”

Why did I have a sinking feeling this would happen?
🙁

I hate to admit it Duane but I’m stumped.
This happened to me once before with a student and a Panasonic DVD RAM camcorder.
We could see that the VOB was the correct size but when we brought it into Vegas, it acted just like your clip.
I gave up after trying everything I knew how to do after a few days.

Short of trying all kinds of tools that I’ve never used, all I can suggest is capturing the DVD right into Vegas.
If you have or can borrow a miniDV camcorder that has a feature called pass-through, hook the audio and video outputs of your Panasonic (use the S-video jacks if they’re available for better picture quality) to the camcorder and then firewire from the camcorder into your computer.
Open up Vegas, then VidCap (the capture utility ) and capture it as if it was a tape.
In VidCap, you’ll need to go into Options – Prefs – General and de-select the Enable DV device control option so that VidCap doesn’t think it can control something that can’t be controlled.
Start capturing, press play on the DVD player and capture the program from the source disc.
This way, it ends up as a DV-AVI file which is much easier to edit.

If you’re comfortable using specialty tools, here’s the thread where I got the original information information.
John Meyer links to another thread explaining the procedure as well as mentioning several tools that can also be used.

You’re on your own with them though as I’ve never tried any of them.

[Duane Weed]

Thank you so much for your help. Capturing from the DVD was an option, just looking a quicker way if there was one.
Again, thanks
dw

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

[Danny Hays]

DVD decrypter will rip as one VOB fill too. Google for it. It’s freeware.

[Enrique Orozco]

.. my best solution when I have a “strange” VOB is to open it in VideoRedo and make a “quickstream fix” … it is an excelent program for editing and fixing mpegs 2 with smart rendering (no recompression) altough not free …. the resultant VOB (or mpeg2 if you like) can be opened without problems then in Vegas…

good luck

Enrique Orozco R.
iDEA DigitalVideoStudio