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Importing VHS vid
A friend asked me to transfer a rough cut edit on VHS to DVD. He has the original shoot tapes, but has lost the original avi cut.
There were many lost frames when I tried to bring the 18 minute tape into Premiere Pro cs3, but successfully transferred it to DVD using a recent standalone SONY recorder. Then, I imported the mpeg files.
However, after some “light” editing, when I wanted to again transfer out to DVD, there was a slight “shutter” effect on the DVD produced, especially in a quick pans of the camera.
It must have something to do with the frame rate, but perhaps others have had such reclamation projects in the past.
Thanks for your collective wisdom.
Bill in Toronto
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2 Replies
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How did you get the original VHS into CS3? I might be missing something here, but, what about transferring VHS to DV using analog in or pass through on your camcorder? This would avoid any intermediate formats. You would be transferring from analog to AVI.
I have had good results when presented with a similar problem. Premiere Elements will accept VOB files from a DVD but I would avoid the step from VHS to DVD if possible. With the Premiere Elements solution, sometimes the first VOB file is fine but if there are other VOB files such as 2 or 3, there can be a lip synch problem with those after number 1.
Rich Baim
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Thanks Rich,
>How did you get the original VHS into CS3? I might be missing >something here, but, what about transferring VHS to DV using >analog in or pass through on your camcorder? This would avoid >any intermediate formats. You would be transferring from >analog to AVI.
I transfered the VHS to DVD using a Sony standalone recorder, then converted the VOBs to MPEG and imported into Premiere. This worked well enough, considering the VHS quality. However, when I showed it to my camera operator, he immediately spotted and identified some “shutter” movement in some of the pans. (I tried using my Sony DVMC-DA2 box to go directly into Premiere, but there were too many dropped frames.)I’ll probably re-transfer to DV tape and then capture the tape. I don’t know why I didn’t do that in the first place.
>I have had good results when presented with a similar >problem. Premiere Elements will accept VOB files from a DVD >but I would avoid the step from VHS to DVD if possible. With >the Premiere Elements solution, sometimes the first VOB file >is fine but if there are other VOB files such as 2 or 3, >there can be a lip sync problem with those after number 1.
The other problem is getting a continuous VOB, but while the lengths can be set in some recorders, it is too difficult to match up the audio as you mention. Oh, well. Don’t think I’ll be doing this any time soon, again.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Cheers,
Bill in Toronto
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