Rip full quality wedding DVD for manipulation in Vegas

[beefhammer]

Heres a nice 1st question for you all. I recently got married, and some family took some video of the ceremony and reception. When I got the video, it was on a DVD and not edited at all. I want to take the raw video that was given to me and edit it in Vegas Video however I feel. I have tried with Win X Media to rip it to MPEG2, but it seems that I lose some quality.

My question is, what is the easiest way, procedural and program, to just get a full quality rip from the DVD that Vegas will work with. I'm not too worried about size, its only a 45 minute video anyways. I am not format specific either.

Thanks ahead of time for the help.

[FulciLives]

Use DVD Decrypter.

You want to rip it in IFO mode and go into the STREAM PROCESSING mode.

Make sure you set the file size split to NONE.

If you do it correctly you will get a single VIDEO file that ends in M2V ala filename.M2V

You will also get a single audio file. The audio can be MPA (which is MP2) or WAV which is PCM WAV or AC3 which is Dolby Digital AC-3 format.

I am not that experienced with Vegas but I think you can edit MPEG-2 video but you should first change the audio to standard 16-bit 48k PCM WAV first. If the original is WAV then it already will be 16-bit 48k PCM WAV but if you have MPA or AC-3 audio then you should convert it to 16-bit 48k PCM WAV for editing in Vegas.

Another alternative would be to use VideoReDo Plus or MPEG-VCR or MPEG VIDEO WIZARD as these programs can edit MPEG-2 with MPA or AC-3 audio. Of the three MPEG VIDEO WIZARD would give you some advanced editing control like transitions etc. whereas the other two are simple cut editing type editors without any real special abilities other than maybe a fade in and fade out (I think MPEG-VCR does that).

Another benefit of using VideoReDo/MPEG-VCR/MPEG VIDEO WIZARD is that these programs can edit without the need to re-encode the entire video file (only the edit points and transitions etc. will get re-encoded).

If you use Vegas I think you have to end up re-encoding which of course means a loss in quality.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[guns1inger]

You will never get it back to the quality it was when shot on DV. If it was shot on a DVD camera then this is probably as good as it gets quality wise.

If is also probably interlaced, which can look horrible on your PC is the player doesn't deinterlace on the fly (WMP doesn't, PowerDVD does). This is normal, and will not be an issue when your put it all back together on a DVD.

[deadrats]

Heres a nice 1st question for you all. I recently got married, and some family took some video of the ceremony and reception. When I got the video, it was on a DVD and not edited at all. I want to take the raw video that was given to me and edit it in Vegas Video however I feel. I have tried with Win X Media to rip it to MPEG2, but it seems that I lose some quality.

My question is, what is the easiest way, procedural and program, to just get a full quality rip from the DVD that Vegas will work with. I'm not too worried about size, its only a 45 minute video anyways. I am not format specific either.

Thanks ahead of time for the help.

let me see if i understand what you are saying: your wedding was shot with a camera that burned it on the fly to a DVD or was it recorded to DV-AVI and then thrown onto a DVD?

since you say you got the video already on DVD and it's in an unedited state, i'm guessing the former is what happened.

if that's the case, there is no need "to rip it to MPEG2", it's already in mpeg-2, video object files (VOB's) are nothing more than a container for mpeg-2 video muxed with a variety of audio formats, commonly ac3 or LCPM.

just copy the contents of the DVD to your hdd (you don't even need a ripper, since the files aren't protected) and Vegas will let you load the VOB files into the timeline where you can edit the video as you desire.

[BJ_M]

deadrats is right .. drag the VOBs to the vegas timeline and edit away ..

vegas will read the mpeg and ac3 as is - no problems ...

[FulciLives]

deadrats is right .. drag the VOBs to the vegas timeline and edit away ..

vegas will read the mpeg and ac3 as is - no problems ...

I didn't know Vegas was OK with AC-3 audio ... for some reason I thought it didn't like AC-3 audio. Perhaps that was the "old" days or I simply don't know much about Vegas although I would like to get to know it better LOL

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[BJ_M]

the newer versions (builds) read ac3 if the ac3 is in a vob or mpeg stream

[kofti]

When I got the video, it was on a DVD and not edited at all

I have the same situation. I have some shot DVDs not edited and i would like to edit them.

I am using Adobe Premiere Pro. Things I have tried and didn't work.

1 ) Renamed vob files to mpeg and opened in premiere. After the edit i got synch problems.
2 ) Read in forums that adobe is good for editing dv avi, so i tried to make my vob files to dv avi. Tried virtual dub mpeg mod. However when i say save as avi, a 30 min. video is like 40 gb ( dv avi is like 13 gb / hour )

Things that worked.

1 ) Tmepg dvd author can edit vob files and burn them back to dvd, but it has not a lot of feautres like adobe.

I haven't bought vegas yet.

Any help making vob ----- > dv avi ?

[guns1inger]

When you save out from virtualdubmpeg2 or virtualdubmod, make sure you choose a DV codec. If it can't find one, install the Panasonic DV codec and try again.

A VOB file is not a mpeg file with a different extension. Some people have had success in some circumstances with just renaming them, but it is not recommended practice. Try using something like VOB2MPG to extract the video and audio from the VOBs. That way you will be editing mpeg video, not renamed VOB files.

[kofti]

solved the problem making avis from vobs in virtual dub mod. ( panasonic dv codec ). no problems so far.

second question is vob --- > mpeg2 , so mpeg2 is suitable to be edited and easier to be made in dvds ?

thanks in advance.