Argh! Small clips put together wont work w Premiere. Help!

[killereddie24]

I am about to lose my mind. I know someone here knows exactly what to do so here is my scenario. I've looked for an answer and nothing seems to work.

I have been given a task to rip certain portions of scenes from multiple DVDs and put them all together into one DVD-R. Looking at the guides I ended up using DVD Shrink to extract the exact time needed, for example from 1:20:45 through 1:28:30. I extracted these scenes to files, VOB to be exact. All was going fine up until then.

Initially I tried loading these VOB files to Premiere, couldn't. I couldn't load them even if I renamed them. I then proceded to convert them. I tried VideoReDo to generate MPG files. They seem fine up until you try using them in Premiere. Then I tried creating AVI files with VirtualDub-MPEG2. So many settings...and still had problems with video/audio not in sync. I then tried to create M2V/AC3 files. I extracted them but AC3 wouldn't load into Premiere. I converted it to WAV. Then I loaded the M2V just to find out that it doesn't play right. It plays too fast.

So to recap, I've tried AVI, MPG, native VOB, and even M2V/AC3/WAV and nothing has worked with Premiere. What am I doing wrong?!??!? Premiere is what we have and I need to put a 3-sec title before each clip. All help is greatly appreciated.

Oh and by the way, I have to maintain a 16:9 widescreen format, which my Premiere project matches. Does it have something to do with the frames per second??? Help!

Ed

[dipstick]

Premiere was not made to edit Mpegs without 3rd party plugin.

Use Virtualdub-mpeg2 to convert to one of the following AVI Codecs:

a) Uncompressed RGB (no codec needed but very large)
b) Huffyuv (need codec, I recomend v 2.11)
c) DV-AVI (need codec, Panasonic is free)

The first two are lossless. The last is a little lossy, but very editable.

[killereddie24]

I've tried VirtualDub already, but I will try it with the codecs you recommend. Any other settings that I need to set within the program? There are so many settings.

The problem I had with the AVIs was that they video and audio didn't stay in sync or that it didn't stay in the correct pixel aspect ratio. I don't see pixel aspect ratio settings in that program.

So basically stay away from MPG for Premiere. I should use something like an AVI? I'll try it and will post a response.

[guns1inger]

pixel aspect ratio shouldn't change. You will have problems if you have ripped a mixture of 16:9 and 4:3 footage. I also suggest you don't just but the clips up against each other, but add a small cross fade or even better, fade out to black, then fade back in to new clip. This will allow you to manually correct any sync problems on a per clip basis without affecting any other clip.