MKVs in Sony Vegas Pro 12

tony-degennaro wrote on 12/3/2017, 12:40 PM

Hello all!

Long Story Short:
I am having major issues trying to get some Blu-Ray footage imported into Sony Vegas Pro 12. I recently ripped a number of Blu-Rays (all 7 Rocky movies) to my computer as MKV files using MakeMKV. Then, I tried importing these into Sony Vegas by doing a number of things, all of which have been total failures, haha (see below for "more details" on what I've already tried!).

Does anyone know how I can simply get the video and audio from these Blu-Rays into Sony Vegas in a format that will allow me to edit them and successfully export them? I'd like the quality to be as close to the original Blu-Ray quality as possible (lossless would be great, but I'm willing to compromise a bit if necessary). I don't care what I need to do - I'm fine with starting from the beginning and ripping the Blu-Rays differently or whatever. Also, once I do get the footage to work in Vegas, does anyone have a recommended Codec that I should export to?

 

"The Details" (I've what I've already tried)
The closest I got was with tsMuxer - I used tsMuxer to convert them to M2TS files, and that actually worked very nicely for the last 2 Rocky movies (Rocky Balboa and Creed), but it didn't work at all for Rocky 1 through 5 (possibly because they are older movies?). I am able to import the MT2S files for Rocky 1 to 5 into Vegas, but Vegas hangs up immediately when I try to move the file to the timeline. Not sure why.

I also tried using Handbrake to convert them to MPEG-2s, but it didn't work (no audio for seemingly no reason). I tried Brorsoft Video Converter to convert the M2TSs into MPEG-2s, and that worked ok until I imported the MPEG-2s into Vegas and then exported the final product (no audio once again). I tried using Avidemux to convert to MPEG-2s, but once again no luck (no sound at all!). I also tried using XMedia Recode, but the video quality is horrible.

I can't believe it's taking this long to do something that should be so simple!! Haha. 

In any case, I would be eternally grateful to anyone who might be able to help!!!!! Haha. I have been up until 2:00am every night all week trying to figure this out but it's no use!! Perhaps someone can help restore my sleep and sanity, haha.

Thanks so much, hope everyone is well!!!
Tony

Comments

Musicvid wrote on 12/3/2017, 2:50 PM

Not as dramatic as it may seem.

-- Handbrake mp4/AAC ( not mpeg-2!)

-- MkvExtract

-- VideoRedo

-- ffmpeg

-- avisynth

--and the list goes on...

They all work, but don't stress if one doesn't work for you.

NickHope wrote on 12/3/2017, 8:42 PM

This might work:

ffmpeg -i rocky1.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy rocky1.mp4

There's help with FFmpeg from section 2 of this post.

Musicvid wrote on 12/3/2017, 9:30 PM

Yes that looks promising for the video.

His audio could be PCM, Dolby TrueHD, or DTS-HD, so that would need to be encoded and remuxed as well.

Handbrake is tried and true with BluRay content from MakeMKV, the downside being it will re-encode the video.

For a paid solution, VideoRedo gets my vote.

tony-degennaro wrote on 12/4/2017, 2:54 PM

Not as dramatic as it may seem.

-- Handbrake mp4/AAC ( not mpeg-2!)

-- MkvExtract

-- VideoRedo

-- ffmpeg

-- avisynth

--and the list goes on...

They all work, but don't stress if one doesn't work for you.

Hey MusicVid! Thank you so much for the solutions, these look great!! I didn't realize I should be using mp4 in Handbrake.

 

Sorry to ask you one more noob question, but is MPEG-4 the same thing as mp4? (I'm a bit confused about this, even when googling the answer, but it looks like if I'm using Handbrake to convert it, it'll be both MPEG-4 and mp4, correct? Just asking so I know what settings to use in Handbrake).

If this doesn't work, I'll try the other solutions you mentioned. Thanks so much again!!

tony-degennaro wrote on 12/4/2017, 2:55 PM

This might work:

ffmpeg -i rocky1.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy rocky1.mp4

There's help with FFmpeg from section 2 of this post.

Hey Nick! Thank you so much for your response and the exact code you gave me, I sincerely appreciate your help!! I downloaded FFmpeg last night, but unfortunately I am such an amateur that I struggled to even unzip the file using 7zip, hahaha. I am working on it though, as this seems like it'd be a great solution if I can unzip it! Thanks again!

tony-degennaro wrote on 12/4/2017, 2:56 PM

Yes that looks promising for the video.

His audio could be PCM, Dolby TrueHD, or DTS-HD, so that would need to be encoded and remuxed as well.

Handbrake is tried and true with BluRay content from MakeMKV, the downside being it will re-encode the video.

For a paid solution, VideoRedo gets my vote.

Hi again MusicVid! I'm going to play around with Handbrake, but if I can't get it to work, I'll go with VideoRedo - is it pretty easy to use? (I'm a decent video editor, but I'm very much an amateur when it comes to video conversion and all that - it's like a foreign language to me, haha). Thank you very much again!!

Musicvid wrote on 12/4/2017, 4:55 PM

Mpeg-4 is the name of the format

mp4 is the file extension for the mpeg-4 format.

Same thing, for anything you'll be doing.

Musicvid wrote on 12/4/2017, 5:02 PM

There are hundreds of posts on the Handbrake forum explaining how. You should have little problem making an mp4 with audio from MakeMKV.

Can't help you much with the learning curve stuff for third party software, except to remind you that we all started from the same place.