Hi, some of you may find some tips here how to include VOB files in Vegas & DVDA projects.
In any case, this is how I do it and it works well for me.
Naturally it took a fair amount of trial and error before reaching satisfactory results. But I am sure there are (better?) alternatives. Anyway, this is the one I know and use.
I use dvddecrypter to create an non-splitted VOB file from any given DVD.
Dvddecrypter is a free tool which does the job nicely. You may want to have AnyDVD or DVDIdle (Pro) running in the event of ripping copy and region protected DVD’s.
Once you have your VOB file you face some options.
You may change the file name to one with a *.mpg extension and load it directly into Vegas. In my experience Vegas (both 5 & 6) is likely to crash from time to time while trying to edit these mpg files.
Converting the VOB file into a AVI file, utilizing virtualdub, is probably a better option but will create a very large AVI file.
As far as the audio part of VOB files is concerned. I use Ufony to extract audio from a VOB file. Ufony is a nice and cheap tool that will do the trick quite well. You can also use free tools like BeSweet (with a GUI interface like BeLight).
As Ufony does not let you extract VOB audio into Dolby Digital AC3 files, you may want to use BeSweet instead.
In case you do not want to edit the VOB file, you can directly insert the VOB file (with mpg extension that is) into a DVDA project and add the WAV, MP3, etc. audio track you extracted with Ufony, BeSweet or the like.
In Sound Forge or a similar application you can further tweaken the WAV, MP3 etc. file if required, like normalizing the volume. Do not temper with the length of the track though!
In case you want to preserve the Dolby Digital audio track, just add the AC3 file you extracted with BeSweet to the DVDA project. Again, this only works if the original VOB (mpg) file is not edited in Vegas, otherwise the video and the AC3 audio are out of sync.
Until now I haven’t found a proper tool to edit AC3 files.
I also use the above approach to rip audio from (music) DVD’s (and sync it with my iPod).
After ripping the audio from a DVD into WAV or MP3, you can remove the unwanted songs, extensive intro’s and applause in Sound Forge to keep only the selections you want.
Hope this helps somewhat. Alternative approaches are most welcom of course.
~Dries.
All of the above mentioned tools you can find in these locations:
www.softe.net (Ufony)
www.dvddycrypter.com (DVDDycrypter)
www.doom9.org (BeSweet, BeLight etc.)
www.dvdidle.com (DVDIdle)
www.slysoft.com (AnyDVD)
www.virtualdub.org (VirtualDub)
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/ (VirtualDub for MPEG)
In any case, this is how I do it and it works well for me.
Naturally it took a fair amount of trial and error before reaching satisfactory results. But I am sure there are (better?) alternatives. Anyway, this is the one I know and use.
I use dvddecrypter to create an non-splitted VOB file from any given DVD.
Dvddecrypter is a free tool which does the job nicely. You may want to have AnyDVD or DVDIdle (Pro) running in the event of ripping copy and region protected DVD’s.
Once you have your VOB file you face some options.
You may change the file name to one with a *.mpg extension and load it directly into Vegas. In my experience Vegas (both 5 & 6) is likely to crash from time to time while trying to edit these mpg files.
Converting the VOB file into a AVI file, utilizing virtualdub, is probably a better option but will create a very large AVI file.
As far as the audio part of VOB files is concerned. I use Ufony to extract audio from a VOB file. Ufony is a nice and cheap tool that will do the trick quite well. You can also use free tools like BeSweet (with a GUI interface like BeLight).
As Ufony does not let you extract VOB audio into Dolby Digital AC3 files, you may want to use BeSweet instead.
In case you do not want to edit the VOB file, you can directly insert the VOB file (with mpg extension that is) into a DVDA project and add the WAV, MP3, etc. audio track you extracted with Ufony, BeSweet or the like.
In Sound Forge or a similar application you can further tweaken the WAV, MP3 etc. file if required, like normalizing the volume. Do not temper with the length of the track though!
In case you want to preserve the Dolby Digital audio track, just add the AC3 file you extracted with BeSweet to the DVDA project. Again, this only works if the original VOB (mpg) file is not edited in Vegas, otherwise the video and the AC3 audio are out of sync.
Until now I haven’t found a proper tool to edit AC3 files.
I also use the above approach to rip audio from (music) DVD’s (and sync it with my iPod).
After ripping the audio from a DVD into WAV or MP3, you can remove the unwanted songs, extensive intro’s and applause in Sound Forge to keep only the selections you want.
Hope this helps somewhat. Alternative approaches are most welcom of course.
~Dries.
All of the above mentioned tools you can find in these locations:
www.softe.net (Ufony)
www.dvddycrypter.com (DVDDycrypter)
www.doom9.org (BeSweet, BeLight etc.)
www.dvdidle.com (DVDIdle)
www.slysoft.com (AnyDVD)
www.virtualdub.org (VirtualDub)
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/ (VirtualDub for MPEG)