Can't get sound from imported vobs in iMovie??

[Garibaldi]

Hello Everyone,

I've been working on a dvd video project on my new iMac G5 with 10.3. I bought and installed apple's mpeg 2 import plugin for iMovie so I could import my mpeg 2 files from some home videos I have on dvd. So I went onto the dvd and opened the .vobs directly from there and brought them into iMovie. It worked great and the clip appeared in iMovie, however it now has no sound!! I've checked everything and I'm not sure why. I downloaded mpeg stream clip and messed with the vobs some with that and now the only way I can import them sucessfully into iMove with video and sound is to encode them with mpeg stream clip to either .dv or .mov, both uncompressed. Because there is no compression with either of these and there can't be for them to import, I can only fit 1 dvd on my 60 GB hd before it runs out of space. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem so I can import the vobs directly into iMovie, saving space and having sound with the clips?

Thanks.

[pixeljammedia]

Because most DVDs have AC3 sound which makes it difficult to use in QT iMovie is not giving you sound. DV and AIFF are what you need for iMovie editing and I would say go get a cheap external firewire drive for editing. 60 GB is approximately 4 and a half hours of uncompressed video. With 300 gb drives floating around the tech stores at less than $.60 a GB I would say get some more space.

[Garibaldi]

Because most DVDs have AC3 sound which makes it difficult to use in QT iMovie is not giving you sound. DV and AIFF are what you need for iMovie editing and I would say go get a cheap external firewire drive for editing. 60 GB is approximately 4 and a half hours of uncompressed video. With 300 gb drives floating around the tech stores at less than $.60 a GB I would say get some more space.

That makes sense. I suspected it had something to do with the sound formatting, that it might be ac3 rather than mp2, which I try to always use. Is there another option besides buying an external drive for this (just keeping my options open), is there a mac program that would let me reauthor/reencode the .vobs with mp2?