use vob files without re-encoding

patrickharris wrote on 2/11/2004, 9:35 PM

I'm wanting to re-arrange material that I have stored on DVD. I've succesfully loaded the vob or mpg onto the timeline, along with the extracted audio wave file.
My question is, if I am not planning to edit my vob, but merely "include it" in the timeline, is there any way to stop Vegas re-encoding this segment when it is finally authored to DVD?
When Vegas does re-encode the vob segment, there is a noticeable deterioration in quality.

Does anyone have any help or suggestions? Thanks!

(maybe I was wrong to store my material on DVD in the first place??)

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 2/11/2004, 11:46 PM

Vegas has no ability to do "cuts-only" editing on MPEG2 files, whether they are encoded into a VOB, or whether they are standard MPEG2 format, without recompressing the file. Too bad, it would be a great feature, and I bet it wouldn't be difficult, given the technology Sony already has in place.

A good tool (although overpriced) tool that will do what you want is called "MPEG Video Wizard 2003" (formerly MPEG VCR) from Womble.

patrickharris wrote on 2/12/2004, 2:17 PM

Thanks a lot for that info, John. I'm glad to know I'm not doing something wrong in Vegas. Womble Video Wizard looks very impressive.
I hope that the next Vegas update will have a bit more support for editing vob/mpeg2 files.

donp wrote on 2/12/2004, 8:03 PM

I second that. VOB's were very hard for Vegas to handle for and my PC. I decided to only have them long enough to create and AVI out of them. John, thanks for your recomendations and suggestions in the other thread on the PAL to NTSC thing I learned a lot in that experience.

johnmeyer wrote on 2/13/2004, 12:26 AM

John, thanks for your recomendations and suggestions

You're welcome.