Convert digicam to .avi

David H Helman wrote on 6/17/2005, 6:07 AM

I have a new Sony Digicam and windows xp home edition. I want to copy the dvds from my digicam, edit them on my computer, and burn the result to a longer dvd. I copied the results of the digicam to my pc and this yielded mpeg-2. I then tried to render this in Vegas and export using DVD architect and lost all the sound. Sony support says that this cannot be done because the sound format is ac3. Is there a process to render the sound out of the mpeg-2 files into another format and then convert the resulting separate video and audio files using Vegas to .avi. Can anyone describe very shortly how this is done and what software they used to do it?

Thankyou,

David

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farss wrote on 6/17/2005, 7:15 AM

I've wasted many hours trying to get this to work. You can convert ac3 to .wav which Vegas will handle using utilies such as BeSweet. Except the ac3 files that the camera records contain non standard data blocks which causes BeSweet to fail. There first you have to run them through ac3Fix I think it's called and then BeSweet. Problem is after all those dramas the results still have some wierd problem, looks to me like something odd happening with the field cadence.
Anyway your best bet is to sell the camcorder and buy one that records to standard DV on tape.
Your only other option is to play the DVD out of the camera into a A->D converter such as the ADVC 100 and record it into Vegas using VidCap.
Bob.