Vegas 9 – Audio Fix?

[Steve Rhoden]

There wasn’t an audio drop-out issue when importing a DVD,
to my knowledge….Didn’t come across that in Vegas 8 and
neither do i have that issue now in Vegas 9.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Libby Csulik]

This is the issue I’m talking about (see several quoted posts below).

I know several other people on this forum have encountered it. What method do you use to import a dvd that you are not experiencing this problem?

“Re: Audio Skips
by Craig Patterson on Dec 31, 2008 at 1:55:29 am

I’d like to resurrect this thread, as I’m having the same issue.

The DVD is not copy-protected, it’s just a DVD burn of some footage – about ninety minutes worth.

When I use Vegas to import DVD Camera tracks, the .VOB files get split up into 250-Meg sections (about six minutes each). They’re not that way on the DVD, they’re 1 Gig each. Once imported, when I click on the filename to look at the properties, I get this:

Video: 720X480 29.970 fps 00:05:57:25
Audio: 48,000 Hz, Stereo 00:05:57:12

Note that the audio and video are not the same length. That’s the heart of the problem.

Simply renaming the files as MPG doesn’t work, as Vegas only recognizes the first five seconds of the resulting file. The audio is not time compressed – there’s a third of a second of audio at the end of the file that’s actually missing.

All of this happens on a Vegas Pro machine, and on a completely different rig with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum. Same exact experience.

I’m going to try ripping the DVD outside of Vegas to see if that works any different, but if anyone’s seen this before, I’d love to be educated.

Craig”

“Need DVD Import Help Quick!
by August Taconi on Dec 18, 2008 at 3:28:51 pm

I am trying to import a 1 hour 22 minute DVD into Vegas 8 Pro. The data does import,however 11 frames of audio are missing at the end of each VTS file. So when the clips are assembled their is a momentary audio drop. The video matches up seamlessly. The audio is the problem. Am I doing anything wrong. Need help now. On deadline.

Thanks,
August

Re: Need DVD Import Help Quick!
by Mike Kujbida on Dec 18, 2008 at 4:59:54 pm

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.”