DVD 301 and DVD Architect help.

stageone wrote on 12/5/2004, 2:37 PM
Hello all, I just spent what the wife feels is a smale fortune on a new DVD 301 camera and the DVD Architect software and now I have trouble. We used the camera and finalized 3-20 min discs of the kids. Now I want to use the software to edit together a DVD that is playable in standard DVD players to send to the family for the holidays. The trouble is I can not import the files off the DVDs that we made into the software. I saw another post that said there is a way to use the vob files but that is not easy. I need to know how to do it hard or not. I just do not want to take a DVD and rip it into an MPEG to do an edit then turn around and have to render it right back into DVD format. I do have Vegas Video 4 and I use Acid all the time to do music recording. Any help would be great as she is on my butt because as you can see by the Camera and software alone I have spent a ton of cash on Sony stuff. Not to mention the TV's and so on. I just need to find a way to get this done so I can stop hearding her ask why I have a ton of money into Sony stuff that will not work together.

Thanks

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ScottW wrote on 12/5/2004, 3:45 PM
Unfortunatly, you've spent a lot of money on something that isn't designed to further your goal. MPEG-2 is a delivery format, not an editing format; the people that sell these cameras claiming that it's trivial to do editing with them are doing a great disservice.

However, all is not lost - one option is to use something like DVD2AVI to convert the audio/video information contained in the VOB files into WAV & DV AVI files. These can then be easily used to do your editing in VV4 - you then render your finished project back to MPEG-2 and AC3, and use DVDA to create your new DVD.

DVD2AVI is fairly easy to use, and last time I downloaded a copy, it was free.

--Scott
stageone wrote on 12/6/2004, 10:21 AM
What a joke! I bought the production bundle at 1,200 ans the camera cost me a grand. The fact that I have to convert edit and render back to DVD is juat a pain! Dow I have to explain that I blew over 2000 on stuff that is not that much better then what I had. I should just use my older digital 8 and fiewire like I used to and then render to DVD I could have saved myself the 2 Grand. Anyway now that I got that of my chest I guess I will see about downloading that software.

Thanks
ScottW wrote on 12/6/2004, 12:50 PM
If you are just going to do simple transitions for your edits, check out www.womble.com - it's an MPEG-2 editor.
stageone wrote on 12/6/2004, 3:09 PM
I will try that as well. After downloading DVD2AVI I tried it but the quality of the video was bad. I hope I can get this to happen. All I need to do is get the video from the DVD into Vegas to add a few titles and some photo still with subtitles and then burn it to DVD-R so I can make a few and send them out.

thnaks for the help.
ScottW wrote on 12/6/2004, 3:49 PM
How did you extract the video? You should specify that you'll use a DV CODEC for the output - the quality should be no worse than the original source material.

womble will also let you add titles.

--Scott
stageone wrote on 12/7/2004, 10:50 AM
I used DVD2AVI to convert it to an mpeg right off of the mini dvd and it was not so good so I did not go any further. I need a good prog to get the video and sound off the DVD that the camera made so that I can master a DVD of the kids, then I will need to copy about a dozen of them to send out. I never dreamed that is would be such a problem! But I'm stuck down and if I can not get this to work I will NEVER hear the end of from little miss "I told you so" (the wife) who would love for me to fail on this one so she can point out that I spend too much on my sony fettish.

Thanks again.
ewg wrote on 12/7/2004, 11:03 AM
Maybe take a look at the following link. It lists several apps than can do this directly as well as utilities to do so manually. Also has guides and liks to guides.
http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=224833

Last time I did this I used VOBEdit and it was a pretty straight forward process. No loss of quality that I saw.

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ScottW wrote on 12/7/2004, 11:19 AM
Don't go to MPEG - if you are going to edit in Vegas, use a DV AVI codec.
stageone wrote on 12/8/2004, 12:56 PM
Thanks for the tips I hope to have some time tonite to work on this so I will let ya know how I make out.