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Importing from DVD
I’ve been asked to edit a video I did last year down in length to air on a cable TV channel. Unfortunately, when I did this year’s video, I blanked my hard drive….all I have to work with is the original footage and last year’s finished DVD. I’d rather not re-edit the whole thing…is there a way to import the DVD into Premiere Pro 2.0?
Thanks for the help!
TrB
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Copy the .VOB files to your disk, rename them to .MPG and import. You may encounter difficulties, for instance if the DVD was encoded with AC3 sound. PP is not happy with editing MPG files. In that case use an external conversion program to convert to AVI, but you will take a significant quality loss.
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why not batch digitize the original project – I assume you saved the Premiere project file and any graphics you used…?
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Mike,
Can you explain how to batch digitize from a DVD? Capturing in PP uses fire wire.
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You can also play the DVD on a desktop DVD player, connect the analog output to the analog input of a video camera, switch the camera to digital output and capture the DVD via firewire. The quality stays rather good.
Good luck
Phocas Kroon
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Renaming the .vob files to .mpg has worked pretty good…how much of an improvement would one see if you did the DVD to camera to PC dub that phocas kroon suggests?
TrB
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When using a camera as converter the vob files are being recorded as avi. No loss here, but when you want to make a dvd from these avi files you have to convert them back to mpeg and there you have your quality loss.
Even better is to edit the vob files in native mpeg using the Mainconcept plug in. This makes things a lot easier. This plug-in even uses smart-rendering. Have a look at Premiere Elements, very good for importing straight from dvd and the Mainconcept plug-in is a lot cheaper.
If you ever want to edit from a dvd that contains ac3-audio just install the ‘ac3-filter’ codec and you will be able to hear the audio.
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