Importing VOB. files into Adobe Premiere Pro

[Andre Gagnon]

Copy the VOBs to HD, change their name from *.VOB to *.MPG. Import the MPGs in Premiere and render. You will then have editable AVIs on the timeline and you may export them to disk as AVIs.

You may also use utilities that basically do the same. DVD2AVI is one of them:

https://www.divx-digest.com/articles/dvd2avi.html

[Paul Meyers]

Use the program “ImToo DVD Ripper”.

[Melex007]

Hello Andre ,
Thank You for your reply.
I did what You said (I have changed the name but the File Type-VOB stayed the same)And I still can not import this clip.
Message sais : “File format not supported”.
Am I doing something wrong? I don’t know…

Best regards – Chris

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[Michael Duff]

sometimes the re-naming method does not work. Something to do with I-frames orr IPB stream or something techie like that. You will have to use software to rip it to AVI. Checkout http://www.videohelp.com and go to the tools section. There is a list of freeware/trialware for doing exactly what you want. I think the one I used was called DG_Index.

Michael Duff –
Southern Cross Ten, Australia

[Melex007]

Hi!
I have used a couple of Rippers but the thing is that is loosing a quality….Clip is not the same anymore..
Any ideas??
The other thing is that when I convert this file(VOB) into a SVCD
and then import into Premiere -picture is sort of shrank on the sites.I mean it is kind of frame on right and left site.
I don’t know what to do to fit whole picture to the sreen.
Anyway – thank you for other replies.

Chris

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[Victorypoint]

I get best results when ripping DVDs with stream processing or frame serving to demuxed uncompressed audio and raw video streams. DGIndex works great for this. The files import with no problems into PPro and Encore.

-AJ

[George Socka]

There needs to be an mpeg 2 codec on teh computer as would be installed by any DVD playing app – WinDVD, Cylink etc

[Aaron Strader]

As both an editor and a DVD compressing/backup kinda guy, I’ve needed this quite a bit. Here’s what I’ve done.

You need to get two programs.

DVD2AVI

and

VirtualDubMod (This version has MPEG2 support built into the software)

What DVD2AVI will do is strip the VOB into a M2V file and a seperate audio file (PCM, AC-3, etc.) If you’re wanting to re-edit it, you’ll need to rip the AC-3 as a WAV (which is a supported option) and have an M2V file and a WAV. From there you can use VirtualDubMod, and rejoin the M2V and it’s audio file back into a single AVI.

This is no lie, it will take a LONG time. 10 minutes of video can take up to half an hour to reencode. I’ve seen 30 minutes of video take 4 hours to recompress at times, but you can do it in any codec installed on your computer. I’ve used old projects out on DVD and reripped their footage back into the project on my RTx100. With the hardware, I’ve got supported realtime footage after it’s converted.

https://www.videohelp.com was a good recommended site, but you will have to dig through an awful lot of FAQs and how-to’s to get what you need.

https://www.doom9.net has some good individual writeups on each software package.

-Aaron

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[Brian Deviteri]

Maybe thinking out of the box a bit, but if you really want to “EDIT” your current DVD content (ie, add titles, effects, lots of cuts, dissolves, etc.) then why not just capture it component analog directly to a DV video file? In theory, this is timesaving and would fix a lot of the problems you seem to be running into. Yes, it seems quite redundant to need to go analog from a digital source back to a digital file, but I think that may give you the most compatibility and useability. Just a thought…

[Melex007]

Thank You so much!It did-really helped me!
Chris

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