copying a dvd

steve634 wrote on 8/17/2006, 6:18 PM

I am trying to copy a dvd that i made back to vegas to edit I can get the video but no audio

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Terry Esslinger wrote on 8/17/2006, 6:51 PM

I would play it back on a DVD player to your DV camera and on to Vegas. That way the cam would give you .avi to work with instead of MPEG2 - a definite plus. While you can edit MPEG2 it is not a format meant for that and the results are lerss than satisfying.

bevross wrote on 8/17/2006, 6:56 PM

Seems silly to recapture. If it's a non-copyprotected DVD (which it would be if you made it in Vegas) many utilities out there (from Nero, Roxio, etc.) will do exact copies. Heck, maybe even Windows XP can do this?
Edit: sorry, not realizing you want to copy back to edit. Then, why not use, in Vegas6: File/Import/DVD camcorder disc. This works for me.

rs170a wrote on 8/17/2006, 7:02 PM

The latest builds of both Vegas and Vegas Movie Studio have the option to import a DVD directly. In Vegas, it's file-import-DVD camcorder disc.

Mike

corug7 wrote on 8/17/2006, 8:35 PM

If you are working with an older version of Vegas, you can frameserve the audio to AVI and just sync it up to your MPEG-2 footage. Try using DVD2AVI. I think it's free and it has saved my butt a few times.