[James W. hawk]

Thanks for your assistance, Alex. I am clearly on the right path now.
Jim Hawk

[James W. hawk]

Thanks for getting back to me Alex.
I have done some more research since posting my challenge. It now appears that I definitely want to align myself with a Pro Tools sound editor. That being the case, your suggestion of exporting as either OMF or AAF is right on the mark. I went to PP-CS3 export/movie (I am assuming that “media encoder” is not a good choice because of compression) and could not find any selections that gave me the choice of OMF or AAF. Can you tell me how to get to one of these selections?

[James W. hawk]

Thanks for getting back to me, Jeff.
It would be highly desireable to not only have the tracks separate, but also to have the clips stay separate. If the clips are merged on the track then it is at the discretion of the sound editor to figure out where one clip starts and ends which could be an issue with L and J cuts.

[James W. hawk]

Thanks for the assist, Jeff. I was temporarily side tracked on another project and couldn’t get back to this until now.
Best regards,
Jim

[James W. hawk]

Thank you to everyone for the help.

Since I first posted my question, I have done more research on this issue and I will share some of that with you. But before I do that I want to go back to the beginning.
I took the source material vob files through the NERO 4 convertor and it DID convert the vob files to mpeg2. However, every so often, the mpeg2 playback would skip a very small portion of the audio only (annoying!!!). The original video (in vob) plays flawlessly on a stand-alone DVD player so I know there are no issues with the source material. But the original program was filmed in 1975, so maybe going to mpeg2 is the problem. I am going to try again by converting to mpeg1. Maybe there was not enough information for an mpeg2 conversion.

As stated earlier, here are some quotes found during my research:

“I know that VOB is coded as a form of MPEG-2, but what I want to do is to convert a VOB file to a normal MPEG-2 file that can be edited in Premier or other editing software.”

“What you need to do is use a DVD authoring program to create the other required files (.IFO, etc) for compiling a usable DVD.”

“…my understanding here was that although the encoding in mpeg2 and VOB is the same, the headers are different, things such as filesize in mpeg2 was limited to 4 bytes hence the 2gig file limit, VOB only being different in that it had the bigger offset and lengths so to convert from one type to the other didn’t require encoding just rewriting…”

My research, in addition to the above, came to the conclusion that if you simply change the vob extension to mpg, mpeg1 or mpeg2 there is a high probability of problems down the road, i.e. files not being recognized by the NLE editor or a finished product DVD that would not play properly.

At this point I am going to try two different approaches. One is the mpeg1 conversion and the other is a different convertor than NERO 4. I found a convertor called ConvertMovie that flies the Microsoft flag on their page and thought that this might be a good and reliable program.

Please share any further thoughts that you may have.

Thank you again for your assistance.
Jim

[James W. hawk]

Hi Steve,
I got your link and went to that site. They reference Prem Pro 1.0 and Prem Pro 1.5 and state that it is important to get the right one. Well I have Premier Pro ver 7. Is Version 7 equal to 1.0 or 1.5 or neither?

[James W. hawk]

Thank you, Mike
The burner could be garbage “Micro Advantage model 4DVDRW-B13” I was not familiar with the company but the price was right…or was it? The burner will make data file backups without any problems on DVD. I went to the web site to look for a newer driver but couldn’t find my model number. I emailed tech support and they didn’t recognise the model…does that sound like trouble? Here is where I am going . Can you recommend a good burner that is reasonably priced and what kind of media do you like?

[James W. hawk]

Thank you ,Steve.
I will go to the Adobe web site tonight and see if that patch solves my problem.

[James W. hawk]

Thank you, John.
I went to Adobe and see that they have a trial version of Encore I will give this a shot but it will have to wait for next week because of available time .I will let you know how I fare.