Digicam to Vegas to .AVI, how?

David H Helman wrote on 6/17/2005, 6:10 AM
I have a new Sony Digicam. I wanted to take the results of my digicam, copy to my Windows XP home edition, copy to Vegas, edit and burn to a longer dvd. The digicam files come out as mpeg-2 on the computer. When I try to render these into .avi using vegas and dvd architect, I lose the sound. Does anyone know how to convert mpeg-2 from a digicam to .avi using vegas without losing sound? What software do you use? What is the process?

Thankyou,

David

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ArthurDent wrote on 6/17/2005, 8:06 AM
What kind of camera is this, a DVD Camcorder? If so, the files on the mini DVD may be .vob files-- you can drop them on the Vegas timeline, but there will be no audio. You have to convert the .vob files with a conversion utility. Check out www.videohelp.com and search in their tools section, or search for a tutorial on VOB to Mpeg 2 or AVI.

When you say "Digicam" you could also mean a Digital Still camera. Some of those don't record audio on their video clips or you have to set them to record audio.
ScottW wrote on 6/17/2005, 8:29 AM
The answer you need is in the DVDA forum - which is basically search the forums for the term VOB and you'll find lots of discussion on how to do what you need.
ArthurDent wrote on 6/17/2005, 8:39 AM
since you have the video, but no audio check out the tools at this link, several are freeware

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?convert=AC3%20to%20WAV
wobblyboy wrote on 6/17/2005, 9:46 AM
DVD Decrypter freeware) works fine to demux files. It will create audio file for you but you have to pull audio file into Vegas or DVDA timeline.
David H Helman wrote on 6/17/2005, 6:25 PM
So what I am hearing is that I take the .vob files from the camcorder and use a utility to convert the audio on these to .Wav? And then copy the .wav into the vegas timeline?

Thanks,

David
ArthurDent wrote on 6/17/2005, 8:06 PM
Yep, that's right. Or use a tool like DVD2AVI or VirtualDub to convert the VOB's video AND audio at the same time.

If you don't need to edit the VOB, you can use a free tool called VOBedit to demux the VOB to DVD Architect -ready video and audio streams (.m2v and ac3), DVDA will accept them, but they can't be edited in Vegas.

the download sites for the above-mentioned tools can be found at videohelp.com