[Mark Prebonich]

“Why? You should import the DVD right from Vegas using File | Import | DVD Camcorder Disc…”

The import DVD Camcorder Disk breaks the video up into multiple VOB files. Each of these files has an approximate 3 frame segment at the end of each of these segments where the audio is missing. This will then produce a noticeable skip. The DVD Shrink method was mentioned by Mike Kujbida as a way to get around this. This method did indeed work as intended.

When I click on the various file types that I rendered and review the info at the bottom of the screen in Windows 7, there is listed several pieces of date. It lists both the data rate and the total bitrate. In the max VBR 9,500,000 render file, the data rate is listed as 9,500,000 and 8,000,000 in the other file respectively. I had then misunderstood and assumed that this was the bitrate for the entire file. As you can imagine, this can be a bit misleading. Thank you for setting things straight and for your thoughtful answer.

-Mark

[Mark Prebonich]

Thanks for the tip. I have previously worked with some VOB files several years ago when I had converted some VHS tapes with a Pinnacle device. I do remember that I had some occasional difficulties in editing the VOB files. It had been explained to me that Vegas didn’t support this as a supported file type to be able to work with. Has this now changed? In the explorer window, I had to click on “all files” in order to be able to see the VOB file in order to bring onto the timeline. Are there any worries in editing and rendering this file type in Vegas Pro 10? Thanks.

-Mark

[Mark Prebonich]

That was a great help. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I am amazed at how some people such as yourself make things so easy to understand. Very much appreciated.

-Mark

[Mark Prebonich]

Thanks for the prompt reply John. This forum is, as always, great. It looks like it may be time for me to look into some other tools. I’ll take a look at the two you mentioned.

-Mark

[Mark Prebonich]

OK, after several hours of trying various programs, good old tsMuxeR came thru again. I used M2TS muxing and it worked great. I then just changed the file type back to mpg to be technically correct. Thanks everyone for their input.

[Mark Prebonich]

Thanks for the reply Mike. I do not have the original project which is the probelm. I have only the DVD and the 2 files that were used for DVD Architect. I have been looking for a muxing program but have not found one that will work properly. The closest thing I have found is TsMuxer but time keeping and slide bar in WMP are off, however the video and audio are in sync. I can then load the muxed file back into Vegas Pro and I suppose that I could then render this back out. I am still hoping that there is a simple way to just mux these to files into one video. Any other thoughts regarding the proper workflow at this point? Thanks.

-Mark

[Mark Prebonich]

OK, if I have to re-render then I guess I’ll do that. Now I have run into another problem. I had originally rendered the audio to AC3 and I am unable to place the audio back on the timeline. Anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks.

-Mark

[Mark Prebonich]

I would like to view the file with a program such as Windows Media Player. I use TsMuxer for HD video and audio muxing. I had hoped that there was a program that would be able to do this for MPEG-2 and AC3 as well. It seems quite a pain to have to re-render just to join the audio and video files.

-Mark

[Mark Prebonich]

Thanks for the reply. All I have at this point is the the mpeg and ac3 files. What is the prefered software to go about combining them?

[Mark Prebonich]

Thanks for the advice. I went to the ASUS website and downloaded the audio driver for my motherboard. I was then able to find the Stereo Mix selection which hadn’t been present previously. Worked like a charm.