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Norman Davidson
August 18, 2014 at 11:04 pm in reply to: How to transfer parts of home movie dvd’s to PC prior to editing

Well…. Finally got a reliable working system.
Downloaded a commercial DVD ripper and it does the job perfectly.
Thank goodness. Now I can on with editing 18 years of my nieces life

Norman
Norman Davidson
August 18, 2014 at 5:37 pm in reply to: How to transfer parts of home movie dvd’s to PC prior to editing

Thanks for those suggestions.
Handbrake didn’t seem to work and similar difficulty with renaming bobs to mpg.

I’ve got closest to being ready to edit in Premiere by importing vob from hard drive having copied DVD into computer.
But then I find the sound track is out of sync.

Going to try marking a key point on visual track and audio and then realign

So near and yet so far……

Norman
Norman Davidson
August 17, 2014 at 12:34 pm in reply to: How to transfer parts of home movie dvd’s to PC prior to editing

Oops….
Just tried same procedure with next DVD.
Unfortunately this time Premiere seems unable to see or play the first half of the DVD I.e. 2 of the four *vob files.

I may have to play the DVD into the computer via a composite convertor and capture the pieces I want in this way.

I’ll report back on whether there is a notable quality loss

Norman
Norman Davidson
August 17, 2014 at 11:08 am in reply to: How to transfer parts of home movie dvd’s to PC prior to editing

Well…..
Just tried with DVD shrink again in case I’d gone wrong on procedure but same thing happened again.
Used ‘shrink’ to put 10 minute *vob in hard drive then imported to Premiere CS5. It then appears as a 10 second clip. Not sure where the rest of the material has gone.

However….
Then copied full DVD to hard drive….
Imported the *vob file with the material I wanted to Premiere and it plays and edits perfectly.

This is great

Thanks to both for help and advice.

I’d also like to thank Creative Cow and contributors for the fantastic tutorials. I’ve been working through them and have learned so much. The tutorials are put together so well they are easy to follow.

Thanks to Walter and Alex for your help

Norman
Norman Davidson
August 17, 2014 at 8:13 am in reply to: How to transfer parts of home movie dvd’s to PC prior to editing

Thanks Walter
Yes – they’re just ordinary dvd’s so that ok.
I’ll get ahead with that today and see how it goes.

I seem to remember from another occasion however that when importing the *vob to Premiere it only accepts the first few seconds.

I’ll report back.

Many thanks for help.

Norman
Norman Davidson
August 16, 2014 at 11:19 pm in reply to: How to transfer parts of home movie dvd’s to PC prior to editing

Thanks Alex.
It may involve around 18 2 hour dvd’s. Will that take up a lot of space on hard drive?
Norman

Norman