importing dvd-r clips

electridan584 wrote on 8/14/2004, 4:18 PM

I have a dvd-r slideshow (4 minutes long) made by a friend (also uses vegas 4) that I would like to extract for use in my project. The online support page indicates the software does not extract files from completed dvds. Will I need to play this dvd back to my camera in order to get a capturable clip?

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bStro wrote on 8/14/2004, 4:51 PM

You can probably copy the VOB from the disc to your harddrive and then drag that VOB onto a Vegas timeline. The issue will be the audio. If your friend used PCM or MPEG audio, Vegas should be able to detect and use it.

If it's AC3 audio, Vegas will not be able to decode it. You'd have to use another program (VirtualDub, FlaskMPEG, Womble MPEG Video Wizard, or something similar) to demux the file (separate video and audio into two streams) and convert the audio to something Vegas can use, like PCM (WAV) or MPEG.

Rob

B.Verlik wrote on 8/15/2004, 12:22 AM

You can look into the freeware program called 'DVD Shrink'. It will let you re-author DVDs. You can download your DVD to your hard drive, using this, and then just take that section and add it to a new DVD. You won't be able to edit it though. See DVDRhelp dot com. This will give you equal quality, but no editing. Or you could feed your DVD through a A/D converter and suffer quality loss. (You could make the DVD you want and after it's done, have DVD shrink put it on your hard drive and then add the DVD of your slide show to your hard drive. Add files from both DVDs and re-author to a New DVD with no quality loss. You will lose working menus, but the DVD will look good.