VOB and Vegas 3 & 4 & DVD

GL369 wrote on 10/5/2003, 7:50 PM
Question -can I import a VOB file with version 3.0? If not, can I do this in 4.0? The file is film that I made and had it burned to DVD that is 5 minutes. Now that I want to put it in V3.0, I can't see it? Ultimately, I want to polish it up and create a menu in which I am thinking I need 4.0 and DVD. I recently installed the Plextor 708A DVD writer and the software that came with it is Roxio (basic) DVD creator. This can see the VOB file but can't import because of the AC3 encoding. This is tricky!

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/5/2003, 9:55 PM
You must take the VOB file off the DVD and plop it on your hard drive (goto www.dvdrhelp.com for tools for this). Then, rename it to .MPG instead of .VOB. However, it will be slow to work in Vegas. Convert it to an AVI using tmpgenc (www.tmpgenc.com) and they it will all be good. :)

what happened to the origional footage anyway? That would save time/effort.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/6/2003, 1:41 PM
Do a search in this forum on "VOB" and you will find many, many discussions about this. In most cases, if you are bringing this VOB into Vegas from a DVD you created from your own work, you can usually just plop it on the timeline and the video will play. To get the audio, you must extract the audio using a tool like DVD2AVI (converting the audio to WAV format) and then put this on the timeline below the video.
GL369 wrote on 10/6/2003, 4:33 PM
Thanks...so I decided to plop down the $$ for vegas 4 and DVD after which I discovered that if I had done "VIEW" on the Explorer - I would have seen the .VOB files from the original copy to the hard drive. Once I got that solved, I was able to drag and drop the video into Vegas 4. But as you said, the sound didn't come with it - (is that because it's AC3 encoded?) If so, the Vegas comparison chart says you can import AC-3 - wouldn't this be my answer before trying TMPGENc or others?
BJ_M wrote on 10/6/2003, 5:55 PM
you can't import ac3 .. you can convert it to wav files though using Besweet or other tools
johnmeyer wrote on 10/6/2003, 7:39 PM
Vegas cannot read AC3 files, either directly, or when they are embedded in a VOB (video object) file. You must use DVD2AVI or one of the other tools suggested in this thread to extract the audio channel you want from the VOB and convert it to a WAV format.