Import V.O.B problem,

[Austen Mathieson]

I might be wrong here but isn’t VOB a ripped DVD file?
I relly don’t think you can import VOB files into Prem or AE.

[Steve Roberts]

Not normally, no. It needs to be converted. MPEG Streamclip is a mac solution, as Dave wrote.

If you’re on Windows, you might want to Google “VOB to Quicktime” or something like that.

[Shehu Adams]

Gee thanks guys, i didn’t do the shooting, it was done with one of those camcorders that burn dvd’s, thats why it came in v.o.b ,i ve google quite a number of apps already, just wanted to know what formats would be of highest quality import/export in A.E.
and can i actually use A.e for the whole music video, because i do not have prem,(never even used it before)but i am pretty conversant with A.E.

[Shehu Adams]

I use windows x.p sp2 , AMD turion64, 256gfx , 2gig ram,

[Steve Roberts]

A VOB file is compressed to MPEG-2. You must convert it to something like Quicktime before working with it in AE. It’s not high-quality — it’s designed to be played on a DVD player right out of the camera, so its quality is sacrificed for playability. It’s not designed to be further processed in post-production. Converting it won’t increase its quality, though — it will just make it possible to use the clip in AE.

Don’t use AE as an editor. It’s very slow, and your project will suffer, even if you have infinite time to do this. Premere might accept VOBs, I don’t know. You might have to convert the file for premiere anyway.

But at any rate, camcorders that record directly to DVD are low-grade consumer. Make some money, buy something in the DV, HDV or P2 formats (for example), then dump the other camcorder.

[Shehu Adams]

Some really helpful info I’m getting here and it’s my first time, cool.
So prem is the way forward right. Does this mean i add my effects, time remapping, etc in A.E, export as mov, then send each mov to prem for simple transitions and final render?,

or work with the cs3 integration thing(never tried that before)
Is there a particular way of using these two apps?
and what’s a high quality export for dvd and t.v? avi? mov?

A friend of mine(my mentor) use to edit vides way back and he use to say “the video is about one Gb right now’ and i wonder how u could get a 3 min music vid to be more than a gig.(quality)

[Austen Mathieson]

using ae and prem for a 3 minute music video will, if you export it totally uncompressed to keep all quality etc will be about 850mb. the two music vids i have on myspace are very different, different amount of effects etc but both about the same size when rendered out uncompressed.

https://www.myspace.com/austentatiousfilms

hope this helps

[Gern Blanstein]

A VOB file is a container for MPEG-2 (and other DVD goodies)