Sony Vegas Studio 9.0b out-of-sync video/audio on VOB files

[javaguy]

My chorus recorded Handel's Messiah, and I'm trying to extract clips for youtube. The DVD has three VOB content files, along with the usual others. If I play the video in Windows Media Player, the video and audio are in-sync. If I copy the VOB files to disk and rename them to MPEG and play them in WMP, they play in-sync.

When I put these files in a Vegas Studio project (.vf) the "first" file (something_1.VOB) is in sync. The later files (something_2.VOB, something_3.VOB) are out-of-sync in preview in Vegas Studio. I estimate that the audio is a second slow. If I render a section to an MPEG file the out-of-sync is also rendered. So Vegas Studio is consistent -- if it thinks the audio is out-of-sync, it renders out-of-sync.

I'm wondering if the problem is that I'm supplying the project with the media wrongly. I've been telling the project to use the content VOB files (about a gigabyte in size each) as the source media. Should I be telling it to use some index file instead, or such?

My Vegas Studio Platinum is version 9.0b Build 92 (or is that 62? I don't remember, and am away from that computer). Anyways, a very recent install.

Anyways, for me this is a show-stopper. Thanks in advance for any help.

Jerome.

[minidv2dvd]

did you use a camcorder that records direct to dvd or is there some other source that was used to convert to dvd? the mpeg-2 on a dvd is not a editor friendly format so if you can get the original source it would be better. if not try converting the entire dvd from the start to a single mpg. use vob2mpeg on the video_ts folder of the dvd. then use that as your source.

[javaguy]

Actually, the DVD was supplied by the local Comcast office, which recorded the concert for the cable channel with their three cameras and a mixer truck outside of the church building. They don't know a thing about recording for the arts, (their camera selection and views are frequently inappropriate, and sometimes the singers are out-of-focus because the lens focused on the audience), but I presume they can put together a DVD.