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Making short clips from a DVD?
A friend of mine is a very low level actor, and he asked me to make some clips from some movies he’s appeared in for his website. I took the DVDs he gave me and didn’t really give it another thought. How hard could it be? Browsing through some other forums I learned I needed to “rip” the DVD using a program like DVDDecrypter. This gave me VOB files (which are just MPEG2 files). I drop these into Premiere and they appear to play fine, but the audio is way out of sync. Not to mention that the aspect ratio is all messed up and I had to fix that manually. Either way, when I output the clips the audio is unusable.
I next read that I could use a program like Flask to make AVIs and then import the AVIs to Premiere to fiddle with. This works great, the audio is synced, the aspect ratio is correct, etc. The only program is that they’re interlaced to death (in some cases almost every single frame is interlaced/aliased). I dropped the AVIs into VirtualDub and deinterlaced them, but they’re still pretty bad.
I’m completely open to suggestions here on a better way to do what I’m doing. Is there any way to make Premiere use the correct aspect ratio, or more importantly, sync the audio? Or does anybody know a better program than Flask to make some AVIs from the VOBs? Thanks.
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4 Replies
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There is no real answer to your problem. Most DVD’s are interlaced, and converting the files to progressive will require interpolation, thus further loss of quality. In some cases, you do have to convert the files to AVI prior to a Premiere import, in others you don’t, it depends on how they were encoded.
Whatever software you use to convert the files should allow you to export uncompressed to maximize quality. Web videos are usually converted to half resolution for bandwidth requirements, so the quality should still be descent on the website.
Vince
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I’m sure you’ve thought of this, but by FAR the easiest way to get consistently, good, usable video from a DVD is simply to play it in a stand-alone set-top type DVD player and capture the footage into Premiere.
That sure would eliminate all the hoops that you have to jump through in order to try to convert the VOB files, which are notoriously troublesome anyway.
By the way, does your friend know you refer to him as a “very low level actor”? 🙂
Todd
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Actually he does, we all make fun of him. It’s all in good fun though 🙂
I did think of that, but I figured I would lose a lot of quality by doing that and was hoping to avoid it, besides which my capture card has lately been… uncooperative… 🙂
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So there’s definitely no way to fix the audio sync problems in Premiere though, right? I’ve tried several VOBs from different movies he gave me, and they all have the sync issue.
Is there a better program than Flask to export VOB to AVI? One that perhaps has a better deinterlacer?
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