Comments

rs170a wrote on 4/3/2006, 4:57 PM
#1. Are you doing File - Import - DVD Camcorder Disc?
#2. Was the disc finalized?

Mike
emtee wrote on 4/3/2006, 7:17 PM
I tried the Import-DVD Camcorder Disc first but I got significant quality loss on the .mpg files.

Then I ripped the entire finalized disc to the HDD and dragged the vobs onto the timeline. The first 1GB vob is the one giving me the problem. The second (about 300MB) seems to work out OK.

Mike
rs170a wrote on 4/4/2006, 6:03 AM
I tried the Import-DVD Camcorder Disc first but I got significant quality loss on the .mpg files.

No surprise there as, depending on the length of the program, DVD files can be significantly compressed compared to the original DV-AVIs.
My question is how does the quality of the files imported this way compare to the files after you ripped them? In theory, there shouldn't be any difference.
I'm not sure why your first VOB is giving you grief though. A glitch in the file somewhere?

Mike
craftech wrote on 4/4/2006, 6:57 AM
What works almost every time for me is to import the VOB file into the media pool where it will rebuild the audio files. Then drag it to the timeline and immediately render it to avi. Then edit it and render it to whatever you want. Occasionally the audio is shortened for some reason but I can usually edit around it.

John
emtee wrote on 4/4/2006, 9:55 AM
Thanks for the replies guys.

I'm not sure if I should feel like a dope or not but...I decided to import the two vob files AND the IFO file onto the timeline. It worked perfectly. Rendered out to AVI NTSC DV Widescreen and AC3. Imported into DVDA. The DVD quality loss was slight and if I hadn't played the finalized miniDVD, I probably wouldn't have noticed a difference.

I'm sure I'll have lots more ??'s as I am new to all this. One thing though, when you render out to avi what happens to the 5.1 surround? It looked like the only option was PCM stereo or mono.

Thanks

Mike
rs170a wrote on 4/4/2006, 12:18 PM
...when you render out to avi what happens to the 5.1 surround?

Unfortunately, it's gone :-(
My guess is that it has something to do with Dolby licensing issues. Sure would be nice to have that option, especially for the folks who create their own surround mixes - although they'd (hopefully) still have the original files.

Mike
emtee wrote on 4/5/2006, 9:29 AM
Soooo...

How does one work around this? Do you have to edit the vob on the timeline PRIOR to rendering out to AVI? Do you edit a rendered AVI without audio, put it on a video track with the VOB audio track and try to match?

Any other workflow?

Mike
ScottW wrote on 4/5/2006, 10:06 AM
Use DVD2AVI to convert the VOB files into DV AVI. You also have the option of extracting the AC3, then you can use BeSweet to convert the AC3 into 6 seperate WAV files (be sure to get the BeSweet GUI in addition to BeSweet) which can then be brought into Vegas as a 5.1 audio project.

--Scott