Hi,
When downloading my DVD into Vegas it shows up as mpg at the end of each clip. The clips read like the following;
VTS 01 .mpg
VTS 02 .mpg
and so on. I also tried another previously recorded DVD in which i was getting slurred voices and not in sync with some words even missing. Again, playing these discs on a DVD player is no problem. Obviously it's how they're being imported into vegas. Thanks for the help, Ray

They are on the DVD in the Video_TS folder. Browse to your DVD drive in Windows Explorer and you'll find them.

Hi,
I found the VOB Files by doing the following;
START
MY COMPUTER
Clicked on my DVD drive
OPEN
VIDEO TS
At this point I tried to rename them by placing .mpg at the end and it wouldn't let me. A prompt came up stating;
Cannot rename Video TS: Files on this DVD are Read Only. You Cannot Copy or Move Files Over to This DVD Drive.
Maybe I'm going about it in the wrong way, if so, please let me know? Thanks, Ray

The DVD is "Read Only" - you must copy the files to your PC hard drive first; then you will be able to rename them there.

Hi,
I do have the DVD copied to my hard drive. I copied it by importing it through vegas onto my designated drive that i use for captures. I renamed it there, but no luck. I don't know what i could be doing wrong, maybe someone could walk me through it? Thanks again, I'll keep trying. Ray

I have no problems importing DVD files as you describe.

What I do have a problem with is that Vegas 8.0c riddles the files with green frames, making the imported files virtually useless.

No green frames in 8.0b

Ray,

I'm trying to do a similar thing, importing a video ts DVD that someone made for me. I opened the DVD folder with my computer and copied just the vob file that I needed to a folder in my computer. Then I right clicked on the file and selected properties. Then in the general tab at the top I simple changed the last 3 letters (vob) to mpg and hit OK. The file is now an mpg file.

Now I just have to figure out which things I need to do to expand the video to match up with the audio. Does anyone have the quick and simple instructions?

It seems that when I right click on it in the timeline that I could use the synchronize by slipping function, but it is greyed out.

Hi,

changing the suffix of a VOB into MPG does NOT make it an MPEG file! It's still a VOB (Video Object) including all the additional structures which are typical of a VOB (navigation packs, subtitles, audio streams etc.).

Simply renaming them can cause problems when e.g. using VTS_0x_2.VOB as this is the second part of a complete title set. All time stamps within the file will be wrong as they are just the continuation of the time stamps in VTS_0x_1.VOB. Renaming a VOB will in most cases only work correctly with the first VOB of a title set (i.e. VTS_0x_1.VOB).

However, in case the VOBs do not contain more than a single video file it may nevertheless work. VOBs which contain subtitles and/or more than one audio stream will certainly lead to problems sooner or later.

Therefore I recommend to use one of the applications in the following list. There are more applications which are able to do the same job but the mentioned ones will do.

Freeware:
VOB2MPG, produces MPGs out of VOBs
PgcDemux, which demuxes VOBs into their elementary streams

Shareware:
TMPGEnc XPress
Womble MPEG Video Wizard

Cheers

darkframe