Import cancoder DVD

Cooldraft wrote on 4/21/2007, 1:34 PM

I am having an issue with this menu option. Vegas seems to create mutiple mpg frimes from the DVD, they do not fit back together when placed on the timeline. The mpg that Vegas creates drops the audio for a short time. And these can not be put back together. No luck with a joiner either, as the break must not be an I frame and artifacts appear for a frame. Anyone else notice this?

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John_Cline wrote on 4/21/2007, 2:05 PM

VOB files are broken into 1 gig chunks by the authoring program and, like you, I've found that Vegas is not particularly accurate during the extraction when spanning from one VOB file to the next. There is an audio discontinuity at the VOB breaks. I use a freeware program called "SmartRipper v2.41" to extract VOB files from DVDs. In the settings, I set it to a 10,000MB max VOB size so it just extracts a single, large VOB file. You can also use SmartRipper to extract the video and audio streams as separate files. The video ends up as an M2V and the audio as whatever it was to begin with; AC3, PCM or MP2. This is really handy when I need to reauthor discs for my clients.

John

Cooldraft wrote on 4/21/2007, 7:43 PM

I just dragged the vob file - it was less than the gig limitation - from that dvd to DVDA,, after I figured out what it was called. DVDA accepted the VOB and did not want to recompress (thank goodness) and prepared. Is there a downfall to this method? Seemed to save a step.