Question on Importing Media

bnaboy2 wrote on 2/2/2005, 10:06 PM

I transferred a family videotape from VHS to DVD on a friend's Toshiba DVD Recorder. When I tried to import the media from the DVD into Vegas for editing, I could only import the video and not the audio portion. The files on the DVD were in a VIDEO_TS folder. I couldn't find audio files to import. I would've thought they'd be together. If I open the video file in Windows Media Player, the audio plays along with the video. Any advice? Thanks in advance.

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GaryKleiner wrote on 2/2/2005, 10:15 PM

The video and audio are mixed together. You need software that will demux them. There are MANY posts on this question of importing DVD files.

Gary

jetdv wrote on 2/3/2005, 6:51 AM

Sounds like the audio in the VOB files are encoded as AC3. Vegas won't read AC3 so you'll have to use some other program to convert the audio back to WAV.

DGrob wrote on 2/3/2005, 8:20 AM

VHS to DVD to AVI and back to DVD is gonna be a lot of processing that will likely degrade the quality of your final project.

You could use something like TMPGEnc 3.0 Express to directly edit your mpeg files, or:
You minidv camcorder likely will convert analog input (from a VHS player) into digital output for direct import as an avi via firewire into your computer.

Darryl