Vegas 6.0d and VOB files

DWhitevidman wrote on 7/27/2007, 1:50 PM
I seem to be having mixed success in importing, renaming and using vob files. Currently I'm trying to bring a section of a wedding video I made using Vegas 5. I used the import media function and imported a 438MB section into Vegas and it is "building peaks", but taking forever.

It's been running for about 4 hours and is only 18% done. I've searched and read other posting about VOB files, but none seem to address the issue I'm having. If the VOB files is essentially an mpeg2 files, why is Vegas having to spend so much time building the peaks?

I want to use this section of the wedding video I produced, as it was a section I labeld "Reflections" which is a summary of the entire wedding into about a 6 minute video. The VOB files is larger than 6 min as the DVD was broken into only 4 VOB files. Any input?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 7/27/2007, 3:11 PM
Go back to your original project and render out a new DV .avi file of that section instead of trying to import it from the DVD.
xberk wrote on 7/27/2007, 8:38 PM
I am not an expert at importing VOB files. In the past I've had some success and some failure. But the very best method seems to be to just transfer from an DVD player output (analog output) through something else to digitize the signal (like a camera) and capture that with something like "WinDV".

The last time I tried using a VOB file in Vegas the sound had sync problems like mad. The track seemed to playing a different speed than the matching video so there was no way to keep them in sync for long.

Regards taking a long time to building peaks, there are many variables but if you are working on a P4 machine or equivalent it should not take 4 hours -- NO WAY.

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DWhitevidman wrote on 7/28/2007, 2:02 AM
I can't go back to the original project as it was done 2 years ago and I have already removed the captured video from the hard drive.

The strange part is, early this week I was able to get a smaller section of a "take outs" video I did to work by just dragging the vob file into a folder on the hard drive and dragging it to the time line.
DWhitevidman wrote on 7/28/2007, 2:05 AM
It's now been over 12 hours and Vegas is only to 34% building peaks. I did read another post during my search that said to take the analog out and run it thru my camera to digitize. I'll give that a try, that should work.

Thanks to both for your input.
DWhitevidman wrote on 7/28/2007, 9:11 AM
I hooked everything up and am playing the DVD on a good Panasonic player thru my Sony VK2000. In Vegas when I click on the capture Icon, just like I always do to capture video from tape from the camera, it loads the the default vidcap, I see a picture for a couple of seconds and hear audio, then the video disappears. I click reconnect and see video for a sec, then it disapperas?

I'm befuddled?
rs170a wrote on 7/28/2007, 9:19 AM
Turn off "Enable DV device control" in the VidCap preferences (first one in the General tab).

Mike
DWhitevidman wrote on 7/28/2007, 4:49 PM
Thanks Mike, that did the trick. I'm finally back on track now and get something done.