Need DVD Import Help Quick!

[Mike Kujbida]

The following tip is credited to John Meyer.
BTW, DVD Shrink is freeware and is available on a number of sites.

If you want to put VOB files into Vegas, then I strongly suggest you use DVD Shrink to first put those VOB files onto your hard drive. This has nothing to do with breaking encryption (you are supposed to only edit material you own). Instead, it has to do with DVD Shrink’s ability to join all VOBs together, and to eliminate the extra streams (audio tracks and subtitles and angles) which Vegas doesn’t know how to handle..

So, open the disc in DVD Shrink. Specify a destination. Go to Edit -> Preferences and on the Output Files tab make sure that “Split VOB files …” is NOT checked.

Then, click on the “Re-author” button. On the right side of the screen, select the DVD Browser and drag the titlesets from your DVD from the right screen to the left screen.

Then, click on the Compression Settings tab. Click on each titleset in the left pane, and you should see for that titleset all the streams associated with it. Uncheck all audio streams except the one you want, and uncheck ALL subtitle streams (the example below doesn’t have subtitle streams, but if it did, they should ALL be unchecked).

Then, click on Backup, specify a destination and make sure that you tell DVD Shrink not to do any shrinking (which if you are copying from a 4.7GB DVD, it will not do).

You will now have one single VOB file which Vegas should like. There should be no audio glitches or gaps, and the audio length should match the video length. You should be able to drop this onto the Vegas timeline and edit with no problems.

[August Taconi]

Thanks for the quick response Mike. I’ll give it a try.

Merry Christmas
August