Can Vegas Pro 18 Import a VCD on A CD-R Disc?

Sassylola wrote on 2/23/2021, 4:36 PM

Running Vegas Pro 18 Build 434.

In 2001 I made a VCD MPEG 1, and burned onto a CD-R.

I make family movies and I want to do a best of.

When I try to import into Vegas I go to File-Import-Media. I then search for my BD-RE drive where the CD-R disc is and when I click on any of the folders nothing comes up. The CD-R will play in VLC and Power DVD. I tried copying the CD-R onto my main drive and open it through Vegas but nothing comes up in those folders. I can open the MPEGAV file not in Vegas and a .DAT file will be present.

Any Idea if I can import this? Or do I have to convert it first? If I do what format do you recommend? I have Aiseesoft Video Converter Ultimate.

Thank You

Comments

set wrote on 2/23/2021, 4:43 PM

Try import and convert using https://www.vcdgear.com/index.html first.

Former user wrote on 2/23/2021, 4:49 PM

Try changing the extension of the DAT file to MPG. You may be able to open in Vegas then. But realize it is going to probably be very low quality.

Sassylola wrote on 2/23/2021, 4:56 PM

Doug, thanks that worked changing extension to MPG. The original frame width is 352 and height is 240. The quality is not good but its for family and they do not care. Thanks again.

Turd wrote on 2/23/2021, 5:01 PM

Try changing the extension of the DAT file to MPG. You may be able to open in Vegas then. But realize it is going to probably be very low quality.

VCD is very low quality! Let's call it:

(V)ery

(C)rappy

(D)isc

format -- something with which I'm quite familiar -- hence my name!

Back in the day I used to transfer DVD VOB files to a hard drive for Vegas 4 editing by simply using a Windows Explorer window to get to the VOB file on the DVD, copy-n-paste it to my hard drive, rename the extension to ".mpg" -- and boom went the dynamite. But that li'l trick worked only with non-copyrighted DVDs.

I bet the same kind of workflow would work for a Very Crappy Disc.

EricLNZ wrote on 2/23/2021, 5:08 PM

The VCD disc may be crappy but probably contains irreplaceable family memories.

Turd wrote on 2/23/2021, 10:52 PM

The VCD disc may be crappy but probably contains irreplaceable family memories.

No doubt!

I, too, have family treasures on VCD from way-the-hell back -- from before the turn of the century when writing to CD was the only way for we bottom-of-the-food-chain peeps to affordably write video files to optical discs. The quality was crap, but it was all we had, and we loved it!

My comment is strictly about the VCD's video quality, not the content!