NEED HELP!!!

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/1/2004, 3:17 PM

I've got a mini DVD from someone and I need to start working on it ASAP. Problem is that I don't have the camera to transfer it from either a DVD player VIA RCA cables, or transfer it VIA Firewire from the camera. Is there a way to transfer the video directly from a burned DVD to Vegas 5.0???

Thanks for any help.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 10/1/2004, 3:24 PM

Transfer it to hard drive first, rename vob to mpg.
Drop it straight on the timeline from Explorer, unless it has AC3 audio or is copyprotected. Then you'll need another tool to convert the AC3 to wav or other editable format.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/1/2004, 3:27 PM

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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/1/2004, 4:23 PM

Not that it's helping any, NO DVD drive that I try this on works. My guess, they didn't finalize it before they gave it to me, and now I can't use it without the camera. Too bad for them.

B.Verlik wrote on 10/1/2004, 5:15 PM

You can't play it at all?

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/1/2004, 5:49 PM

not in my computer, or any other computer I've found. I'm going to have to use the camcorder that it came on.

Peeks wrote on 10/2/2004, 5:27 AM

Hi Spot,

I was wandering how i could change the VOB to MPG? I tried it and the filename alone changed.

I want to check if this wil work in my comp.

Thanks.Ü

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/2/2004, 6:34 AM

right click the file, choose "rename"

farss wrote on 10/2/2004, 7:08 AM

You MAY also be able to finalise it in some of the STB DVD recorders.
However I can assure you after wasting many hours with these the output of these idiotic inventions that that'll be only the begining of your problems.
By far and away the easiest approach will be to play ot out on a DVD player and capture it back as analogue. Even if once it's finalised you have to take the disk to some shop to find aplayer that'll play it and buy the thing it'll be cheaper in the long run.
The mpeg stream they record doesn't go well in Vegas and the ac3 audio spins out all the decoding tools I tried to use to convert it to .wav. You will likely need to run the ac3 through qc3Fix first and then BeSweet. I think I needed to restream the mpeg through TMPGEnc and then through DVD2AVI.
Sorry if I'm a bit vague, I've been trying to forget everything to do with those cameras.

Bob.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/2/2004, 7:58 AM

Spot, I tried that and I never get a clip over a certain length no matter how long it actually is, and I can't get it to show more than about 15 sec. of the first part of the clip. If I click in the clip like half way it shows a different part that it will never play to, but I can't get the video to actually play like it does from the Disk. Any help you can suggest would be great.

P.S. When I have them as .VOB files I can playthem full length in my DVD program, but I'm SOL (Sadly Out of Luck) it seems when I try to use them in Vegas 5.0b with the .mpg file ending. What's up with that? Just a Decoding problem?

P.P.S. It was the finalizing. I figured that however as I found that it wouldn't register in anything. Thought my drive might have been crazy at first becuase the ppl. I got it from sounded like they watched it normally and had no problems.