I have a 55min program on DVD that I need to edit. All other DVDs from the same client that I've authored no problem. Several others that he's got from our national archive no problem either. I'm simply stuck and somewhat frustrated by this one 55 min DVD.
As the program is split over 4 VOBs I ran it through VOB Merge to get one VOB. Drop that into V8 or V9 and I get only the first 29.970 seconds. I also tried just the last two VOBs but same outcome. I inspect the media properties and find the streams are 29.976 seconds long? What a strange number.
So in desperation I try PPro CS3. Now it gets really wierd. At first PPro tells me the frame rate is 29.976 and when I drop the clip onto the T/L....there's only 29.976 seconds of it. Then after a few minutes of Ppro thinking about it, bingo, it decided it really is 25fps. So I drop it onto the T/L again and heavens above, the clip is 55 minutes long. Only problem now is no audio, yish.
So I try using DVD Shrink to merge them VOBs, no joy, same result.
Next effort, renamed the VOB to mpg and dropped the file into DVDA. DVDA says the video is only 29 second long however the resulting DVD will be around 4GB!
PGCEdit reports only one minor gripe about this DVD, there's no first play entry, doubt that's significant.
Final effort. Open V8 and try Import Camcorder disk. V8 finds 19 VTS Objects and proceeds to import them. Start dropping these onto the T/L and it looks and seems to sound OK. Only wierdness now is the waveforms do not match the actual audio. They show and the meters read a big glitch where the VTSs join but the audio sounds OK, this gets wierder by the hour.
Another intersting thing. I only need the first 4 minutes of this DVD so I figure I don't need to merge the VOBs anyway, the first one has go to contain at least the first 4 minutes so I drop just it straight from the DVD onto the T/L. Well Vegas thinks it's only 29.976 seconds long but the audio plays at the wrong speed.
Unless someone has any bright ideas I'll simply playout this DVD in a STB and capture it. This is a freebie job anyway. Why are they always the ones that cause the most grief :)
Bob.
As the program is split over 4 VOBs I ran it through VOB Merge to get one VOB. Drop that into V8 or V9 and I get only the first 29.970 seconds. I also tried just the last two VOBs but same outcome. I inspect the media properties and find the streams are 29.976 seconds long? What a strange number.
So in desperation I try PPro CS3. Now it gets really wierd. At first PPro tells me the frame rate is 29.976 and when I drop the clip onto the T/L....there's only 29.976 seconds of it. Then after a few minutes of Ppro thinking about it, bingo, it decided it really is 25fps. So I drop it onto the T/L again and heavens above, the clip is 55 minutes long. Only problem now is no audio, yish.
So I try using DVD Shrink to merge them VOBs, no joy, same result.
Next effort, renamed the VOB to mpg and dropped the file into DVDA. DVDA says the video is only 29 second long however the resulting DVD will be around 4GB!
PGCEdit reports only one minor gripe about this DVD, there's no first play entry, doubt that's significant.
Final effort. Open V8 and try Import Camcorder disk. V8 finds 19 VTS Objects and proceeds to import them. Start dropping these onto the T/L and it looks and seems to sound OK. Only wierdness now is the waveforms do not match the actual audio. They show and the meters read a big glitch where the VTSs join but the audio sounds OK, this gets wierder by the hour.
Another intersting thing. I only need the first 4 minutes of this DVD so I figure I don't need to merge the VOBs anyway, the first one has go to contain at least the first 4 minutes so I drop just it straight from the DVD onto the T/L. Well Vegas thinks it's only 29.976 seconds long but the audio plays at the wrong speed.
Unless someone has any bright ideas I'll simply playout this DVD in a STB and capture it. This is a freebie job anyway. Why are they always the ones that cause the most grief :)
Bob.
