Clarification of same question ... a buddy was given a DVD of a commercial for one of his cloths suppliers - he is, in fact, allowed to alter it to his own use - they don't have any other materials of that sort to send him - is it worth playing with? We just want to insert some shots of his store, a logo type and another sound track - it will only be shown on a normal sized TV at a exhibit.

Any tips about maintaining quality etc?

//tia, Garo

There may be a better MPEG editor than Vegas, but if you can avoid rendering the original footage, then it should work.

ok, changing the name of the file didn't work. it reconized it this time but would only play for a couple of seconds, what would be the optimal format to use in vegas, and how do i convert the dvd to that format?

i should say that the clip was recorded on dvd-r w/ a home dvd recorder from vhs, should i just give up on the dvd thing, and try to capture in vegas using and old camcorder or what.

thanks again

I would connect the VHS to a camera or convertor or deck and use the pass-thru options to capture via firewire to DV-AVI (which IS Vegas' native format).

There are some free utilities to convert DVD files into AVI (which is much better to edit in Vegas with anyway) such as VirtualDUB and others.

I prefer the simplicity of the software at http://www.Imtoo.com

i have tried some of the free converter programs out there and some of the free trail versions, and when i try to convert the dvd, i get an error- unable to parse the ifo file.

any more suggestions, i don't want to recapture this clip if i can help it.

thanks

Another way is to play the DVD on a set top, and connect the video & audio outs from the DVD player to your pass-through device and capture as avi in Vegas

Dropping the VOB file shouldn't break after 3 seconds. (or at least it wouldn't do this with my PCM audio based discs in Vegas4.)

One option is DVD2AVI. With this you can frameserve (uncompressed AVI) onto the Vegas timeline.

It is out-there and be sure not to break the DMCA by unwittingly downloading anything to do with pirating copyright/protected/encrypted media. Even downloading these tools is illegal in North America and the EU (latter more recently).

Often reading from a disc is no pleasure. Especially when requiring random access to the footage / seeking.

So copy the VIDEO_TS folder to where you normally do you video (C: V: etc). Then apply DVD2AVI to that.

Otherwise re-acquire the footage into your PC through your camera or DV-bridge-converter. Whatever you do, without an MPEG oriented editor, you'll be glad you only have a small display to view this on as you'll not have the original quality after making your DVD more Vegas friendly.

video is working but audio is not there(using dvd2avi).

ok, here is the deal, someone let me know if i'm on the right track. i have some vhs tapes of an old band i was in, i want to take the audio and video and load into vegas, then export the audio into soundforge and fix that, then i want to add some fx to the video, then merge the two, and burn to dvd.

should i stick with vegas/soundforge or try something else.

i should say that the orginal vhs was recorded w/ a mid 80's era camcorder so i'm not looking for super video quality, but would like to fix up the audio a bunch.

thanks again everyone.

real newbie here

If Vegas 4 works with Sony MainConcept MPEG 1&2 then that will read in the video perfectly well. I worked from a copy of the DVD on the hard disk. Otherwise VirtualDub MPEG2 will read the DVD and you can save output as .avi

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virtualdub didn't seem to work for me, but thanks for responding.