Importing Video

rollysons wrote on 1/25/2008, 6:33 PM

I have VMS 6.0b and am trying to put video onto my hard drive so I can use it to make a dvd video/slideshow. Recently I took all of my old hi8 video cassettes and recorded them to a DVD-R via a dvd recorder. To put them onto my hard drive I would just open VMS click on File and then Import then DVD Camcorder disk. VMS chops it into around 5 minute sections and puts them as windows movie clips onto my hard drive. The crazy thing is that it doesn't work all the time. In other words, it acts like it will import it and will see the counter start but after about 10 seconds, it just stops. They are all the same brand of DVD 's, memorex. They all will play with Windows media player, even the ones that it won't import.

Why is this? Is there another way to get the dvd contents on my hard drive? If I open the disc and copy it, it copies the video_ts file. I would like it to be a movie clip type of file that I can cut little pieces out of with the trimmer.

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/25/2008, 10:05 PM

Try first to copy the whole dvd contents to your hard disk in Windows explorer. Then import those files into Vegas. Be patient, because it is very time consuming.

mickbadal wrote on 1/28/2008, 7:42 AM

"Recently I took all of my old hi8 video cassettes and recorded them to a DVD-R via a dvd recorder. To put them onto my hard drive I would just open VMS click on File and then Import then DVD Camcorder disk."

Keep in mind that when you record the video to DVD-R, it is encoded to MPEG-2, which is a loss of quality. If your intention after pulling the A/V down to your computer is to edit it and re-encode (such as for a DVD), you're going through another generation of quality loss. So you may want to use another technique for getting the source into your computer, such as using camcorder pass-through so the source comes in as lossless AVI.