having trouble with capturing DVDs

goodtimej wrote on 6/2/2008, 2:42 PM
I have a DVD that I need to rip, it is not copy protected, it is a clip of a client that was on the news and the TV station gave him this DVD years ago. So I pop it into Vegas, go to File, then go to Import -> DVD camcorder disc and it captures everything fine. If I watch the files in Windows Media Player or any other media player for that matter, I have no problems. When I bring it into Vegas, though, the audio has a really strange problem. There is a constant high pitched almost-beep throughout the whole thing. I have tried this footage in many different project types, I have tried re-reripping the DVD and of course many different audio tracks.
Does anyone have any experience with this that they could lend me? Thanks.

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Chienworks wrote on 6/2/2008, 3:12 PM
I never had any success with the import DVD function until Vegas 8. If you're using Vegas 6 or 7 you may have some problems. It should work fine with version 8 though.

What i used to do prior to version 8 was to capture DVDs the same way i do VHS. I'd play the DVD in a set-top player and connect the audio & video outputs to an A/V->DV converter, then capture through firewire. Many digital 8 camcorders can perform the conversion for you, as can quite a few DV camcorders. There are also stand-alone converters from companies like Canopus that can be had as cheaply as under $100.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/2/2008, 4:15 PM
There have been many problems reported importing DVDs into Vegas, but a high pitched beep is not one of them.

Do you have a demo copy of Vegas, or one that at one time was a demo? I think the demo includes an "audio watermark" of some sort.

The usual problems with audio from DVDs is that either people can't get the audio to play at all; the audio isn't synced exactly with the video; or the audio is shorter than the video by a few frames.

Beeps -- that's unusual. If you really don't hear it when you play the VOB in Media Player or your DVD player, then I'm pretty sure it has to do with some portion of your Vegas license that hasn't yet been activated.
goodtimej wrote on 6/2/2008, 6:52 PM
I've had Vegas for years now and its fully registered. Weird.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/2/2008, 8:08 PM
try copying the data from the dvd to your hard drive & renaming it to .mpg. see if that works.
Former user wrote on 6/3/2008, 1:27 PM
Put the DVD in a regular DVD player and see if there are alternate audio tracks.

Vegas and most software imports the first audio track, but the DVD may be programmed to play an alternate track. The first track might have the beeps you are hearing.

If this is the case, you could capture the audio track through your soundcard and resync. Or use software, such as TMPGEnc DVD author that allows you to select which audio track to rip.

Dave T2