.vob file extension

Ange wrote on 6/9/2011, 5:51 PM

I'm having some 8mm film transferred to DVD at Costco, and I want to be able to edit the DVD using Vegas Video 6.0. The company doing the work says that I will need a software that can manipulate .vob files. So, the question I have is.....will Vegas 6.0 be able to do this for me?

Thanks for any help on this.

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Eugenia wrote on 6/9/2011, 5:58 PM

Yes and no. Vegas (at least version 8 up at least version 10, maybe your version too) can load .vob files, but it has bugs with audio-video sync. I'd suggest you download or create a legal vob file (that's at least 15 minutes long) and load it on the trial version of Platinum 11. If the bug is still there, then you're out of luck. In that case trying the competitor product to Vegas, Premiere Elements 9, might be an idea...

BTW, if your 8mm footage has no audio, then a recent version of Vegas will work with vob fine.

However, editing mpeg2 vob is a mistake. By the time you edit in mpeg2, and then you resave or re-burn a DVD, you've lost ton of quality. The right way to do this is to scan your 8mm film in an intermediate codec, not DVDs. DVDs are only ok if you never wanted to edit them again, or if you don't care if these files can be usable for another 100 years (DVD disks go bad after about 25 years). An intermediate codec, or HDV, is a better idea that mpeg2 DVDs (or DV AVI which while it has high bitrate it's not very efficient as a codec).

musicvid10 wrote on 6/9/2011, 6:34 PM

The .vob files from the DVD may import correctly if you use the "Import DVD Camcorder Disc" function in Vegas. I don't know if your version of Vegas has this.

If there are sync errors, as there sometimes are, the VideoRedo app will join them seamlessly (and let you split and trim too). It is made for this purpose, and has a free trial period.

If you wish, the single .mpg file smart-rendered in VideoRedo will import to Vegas, and can be smart-rendered from there again, thus NO loss from the original .vob.

I've done it this way with hundreds of hours of video tape (VHS and Video8), and I can promise that the quality of the footage will be better than if it was captured through firewire to DV-AVI, assuming the DVD is at least 4Mbps. At 6Mbps, the quality will be as good or sometimes better than the original video tape (it's true) because the machines that do these transfers have video noise reduction, TBC, and chroma enhancement technology built in.

The more expensive options of going to a commercial post house and transferring to high-bit 4:2:2 may give a little better color than a DVD, but cannot improve on the very low-bandwidth 4:1:1 of the original VHS, so I have concluded it is not worth it.

Ange wrote on 6/10/2011, 11:02 AM

Thank you very much for your input.

tlh wrote on 11/16/2011, 11:13 AM

I have version 10 - when I attempt to bring in a .vob file using "import media" the import box does not show the three .vob files so it looks like it will not load them. Will try capturing direct from the camera - it is a model that writes to a DVD.

Chienworks wrote on 11/16/2011, 11:19 AM

If the files are still on the DVD from the camcorder then use "File / Import Camcorder DVD disc". If you've already copied them to your hard drive try renaming them to .mpg instead .vob.