[Don Smith]

I “think” I have figured this out now, and am posting in case any others have a similar problem and want to know a “Fix” that works for this. The first problem was that I needed to render a file with a time code burn on it and I couldn’t find a frame rate option of 2 fps. So whatever I rendered did not play back showing the original 2 fps and it came out with the “fluid, ghost like” image as opposed to the standard “two snapshots every second” standard security cam look to it.

So what seemed to work was to render to AVI using default template (uncompressed), click on “Custom”, choose best quality, and under Video Options and highlight the Frame Rate which says 29.970 (NTSC) and put in 2.0, then change Field Order to None (progressive scan) and render the file.

That produced a file with the 2 fps I needed to match the “jumpy” security cam footage. But the next problem was in trying to convert edits from that file to a standard mpeg2 file I could use to create a DVD. When trying to make the mpeg2 file, I experienced the same initial problem; it just wouldn’t play back in the 2 fps mode. So the “final solution” seemed to be to convert the AVI file with the 2 fps into a high quality .wmv file. And I discovered that rendering the .wmv file to a standard mpeg2 actually worked! Good old trial and error method, definitely not skill ;-). Now there is probably a quicker, easier method to end up with a good mpeg 2 DVD, and I’d love to hear suggestions. But this process seems to have solved my problem.

Thanks again to Mike for his help!

[Don Smith]

Thanks so much for responding, Mike. So I did that and got the frame rate and other video information. It said it was 320 X 240, 2.000 fps. However, it seems that the lowest frame rate option is 12.000 for 1/2 film, and there is a 14.985 (half NTSC) and a 15.000 (multimedia). So there appears to be no option closer to the 2 fps this was produced in.

I need to render this out with a time code filter so we can edit out clips, and the customer needs it to be as close to the origonal as possible. Should I just try this at 15 fps and see what it looks like? Any ideas on how to handle this.

Thanks in advance!

[Don Smith]

Thanks for all the feed back. Are you seeing enough of a speed increase with 64 bit vs 32 to deal with occasional crashes? Is it that much faster?

[Don Smith]

The DVD I imported initially had those audio gaps every 5 minutes, so basically if you have more than a 5 minute DVD, you’ll have those gaps. If you aren’t concerned about having a gap, then just importing into vegas is a lot faster and easier. But the DVD Shrink fix really works nicely for a continuous audio file.

[Don Smith]

Well, did it again! Should have searched and worked a bit before posting, because I got my answer. Here’s what I found when I searched:

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.

I tried this and it worked really nice. However, it took a while to find an actual FREE version of DVD Shrink, lots of the links directed you to sites where they wanted money from me. Here’s the link I found for the actual FREE DVD Shrink version:

https://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/DVD-Shrink-Download-4128.html

[Don Smith]

Never mind. It works now. Not sure what happened, but it works now.

[Don Smith]

Yup, that fixed it. Thanks. Saved a lot of time trying to figure out what I did wrong.

[Don Smith]

OK, back in business now. Thanks Mike and Steve, appreciate the quick response.

[Don Smith]

Thanks, Steve. It was installed before I reformatted, and isn’t now, so that’s probably it. By the way, do you know the “tweaks” for the AC-3 pro setting for the right playback on TV levels? Change something to 31 or something like that.

[Don Smith]

Never mind. Duh, should have checked the help file before posting. All fixed. Easy fix, just select edit/channels/combine.