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VOB to Avi conv,that PP can accept
Hi,
First time poster, frequent reader.
I am hoping to find a converter that encodes from VOB to an AVI or Mpeg format that can be imported into premiere Pro 1.5. I want to obvoiusly keep as much quality as possible, because i will be exporting it to .mpv for DVD authoring. I have tried a couple different converters and only got results of AVI’s with compression that PP wouldn’t accept. Any suggestions on maybe specific compression settings that need to be set for the avi’s to work in PP or any suggestions at all would be much appreciatiated.
I did also convert the VOB to an mpg file that I was able to import into PP, but when I export it, it has a lot of artifacts expecially in the black space around the people. The video itself is of dancers moving – so it goes from slow movement into very quick movement.
Any suggestions would be great! Thanks.
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7 Replies
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I usually Demux VOBs to Mpg2 using TMPGEnc and then import them into Premiere.
If Premiere accepts them and the sync is right, I think that’s as good of a quality you are going to get. What export settings are you using ? You are re-compressing an Mpeg2 to Mpeg2 so your quality is going to suffer quite a bit no matter what. A previous conversion to AVI probably won’t help here.
Vince
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There is a way to do simple edits (cuts only) of VOB files and re-author without loosing any quality.
Edit using VideoReDo Plus and then author the resulting file in Encore or whatever you use. -
Several suggestions:
– Upgrade to Premiere Pro 2.0. It handles imported MPEGs a lot better than 1.5.
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– Use avisynth and its dgdecode plugin to create an avisynth script of your MPEG. Then install the Premiere avisynth plugin to Premiere’s plugins/en_us directory and then you’ll be able to import avisynth scripts.
The problem you’re going to have is interlacing. If your clip is progressive, then that’s great, but if it’s interlaced, Premiere is still going to treat it as progressive which is going to bork the footage if you do anything at all to it (resize, speed changes, etc.). To get around this, you should work in a preset that supports interlacing (like NTSC DV 720×480, etc.) and then save your clips as interlaced DV as well (VirtualDub can load avisynth scripts and then save as any avi codec you have installed). When your source matches your project target, Premiere assumes it is in the same format as the project target.
Keep in mind that importing a VOB probably means you’re doing something illegal, so I hope you’re not going to sell your footage… 😉
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Heh, no I’m not doing anything illegal. 🙂 My client only had this specific footage on a DVD unfortunately.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I will get to work and let you know what worked best.
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Play the DVD on a stand alone player connected to the analog input of a camcorder.
Connect the camcorder via firewire to the PC. Switch the camera to DV out and capture in Premiere.
Alternativ: record the DVD on miniDV tape and capture the tape.Good luck
Phocas Kroon
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No no no, that’s a terrible suggestion! DVD is 4:2:0 colorspace; DV is 4:1:1. Even assuming no loss at all, the overlapping (lossy!) colorspaces will seriously bork color edges. Not to mention that, for no reason at all, you’re introducing 2 additional generational losses (one analog, one digital).
No, he should try to work with the data he’s already got to avoid further loss.
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if it looked fine in PP but the exported file was pixelated badly then check your export settings.
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