Ripping/Importing DVD Format Question.

[Mike Velte]

Premiere can edit VOB files copied from a (non copyright) DVD…no need for another format.
Ripping from a copy protected DVD will not be discussed in this forum.

[Jeff Herring]

Yeah it’s not copyrighted. A Professor records his lectures and burns em down to DVD’s and he’s looking to put together an edited collection.

Can After effects handle VOB files for any compositing? He’s talking about doing some crazy stuff like walking around a double helix to point out parts of DNA, making cells split in his hands like a magic trick, or jogging through the lower intestine.

If not then what would you recommend for a format to go from premiere or the DVD to After effects?

[Jon Barrie]

You can use the VOB video files in After Effects if you change the file type extension from VOB to MPG. no converting and further quality loss. 😉

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[David Dobson]

So long as there are no timecode breaks in the VOB file(s), PPro can work with it. Otherwise you can use DVD Decypter to re-write the VOB file with contiguous timecode and that will work. Never use DVDecryter to rip Copyrighted DVDs though.

[Richard Yim]

Would you kindly explain how I could decrypt “with continuous timecode”? I am new in this game and do not know how to…

I got the Decrypter and tried and I ended up the same files on my computer that’s all.

My problem is when I import vob files from dvd using my PPro CS5, only a 8 seconds portion of first part of each vob files are imported. And I gets “file has an unsupported compression” when it trid to import video_TS file..

I tried to rename te vob to mpeg and tried to import . Then the entire video was imported but the audio only up to the 8 seconds from the beginning.

I upgraded to cs5 from cs3 simply because I read that cs5 can imports vob files. But actually it does not do that job well for it imports only the first segments (chapter) of the video series and can not import the rest.

Any tips would be reately appreciated. The vob files are created from sony 8 tapes .

[David Dobson]

Yeah – any time code breaks in the VOB file and PPro can’t get past it.
DVD Decrypter seems to eliminate that when you use it to “decrypt” the VOB files to your hard drive. It’s not really decrypting them cause they aren’t copy protected, but it seem to write new files that don’t have the same timecode breaks so PPro can import all of it. I also use Nero to open the VOB files and then rewrite them as DV .avi files when all else files. I am sure there are million other ways to do it too.

[Richard Yim]

Thanks David for taking time to give me a reply.

I could not import the subject VOB files to PPro CS5 yet. Adobe tech in India told me that the VOB compressing format used are not supported by them and advised me that they could not be of any more help hence. They just suggested me to find compressing method out there somewhere which was used for the VOB file (which I have no idea at all), and the person at Adobe sounded to me as if saying “get lost…”

But I have to import these vob files and edit them so that I may come up with a decent presentation for my kids who are now all grown up and moved out. The video was taken using Sony Video cam ccd_trv21 and was converted to VOB files 20 some years ago.

I used the Decrypt program you suggested and tried to import them to PPro CS5 without any success. I do have Nero Smart Start but did not find any place in that program to save it as DV.avi format yet. What Nero program or which version of Nero program did you use? There seemed to me too many Nero programs out there.

Any further advice would greatly be appreciated if any one who went through the furstration I have gone through now leaves any suggestion for me to try.

A short VOB file if any one want to look at is at the following link.
https://www.snulaw17.org/4qa/VTS_01_4.VOB

[David Dobson]

Nero Vision (in Nero 9 or later) using the “Make Movie” function. It’s their editing software. Load the VOB there. Drag it to the time line and then press export.

A 20 year old DVD? Sounds more like Video CD. But Nero can read lots of formats, so it might not matter. There is probably a free transcoder on the internet too that can do this. I only started using Nero cause it could transcode AVCHD files to HDV, something I had needed at the time for a work project. Once PPro could handle AVCHD, I stopped using Nero for anything other than VOB files

[Martyn Gough]

I’ve been trying to bring .VOB files into Premiere Pro CS5 from a dvd and have been having the same problem where it will only play the first chapter from the DVD and not the whole video. I have tried exporting the .VOBs from VLC and Adobe Media Encoder to other formats but it still just plays the beginning chapter only.

The SOLUTION I found was to use a DVD ripper called Handbrake to rip the .VOB file to .m4v and then import them to Premiere Pro CS5. (Note: we’re not using this ripper because the dvd is encrypted here. It is just to get a video file that isn’t in chapters)

1 – Open Handbrake
2 – Select the ‘VIDEO_TS’ folder on the DVD (you may have to upgrade VLC)
3 – Specify the destination and choose .m4v
4 – You can choose H.264 or MPEG-4 codec
4 – Import the new file.

Worked for me.