[HELP] VOB Grief

[ZZiNo]

Hey guys,

I have quite a problem here... which needs to be solved or a ton of people are going to hate me.... and a huge waste of money...

I finalized a disc on my DVD-Camera which means it takes the data and turns into a playable DVD. Now the DVD works fine in my computer... as I can run it and play all the scenes with Windows Media Player. But the thing is, I want to EDIT those files... But to do that, adobe premiere will not load VOB files... So I need to convert them to an AVI or MPG file.

Ive used about a ton of converters... but none of them seem to do it. Sure the VOB is converted to AVI, i play the AVI but only get sound... And yes, convert video, etc, is checked off...

A list of the files as they appear on the DVD....

VIDEO_TS folder contains:
video_ts.bup
video_ts.ifo
video_ts.vob
vts_01_0.bup
vts_01_1.vob
vts_01_2.vob

And a DVDCAM folder contains:
DVDCAM.IFO


Any help is greatly appreciated! THANKS!

[guns1inger]

I would start with VOB2MPG, which will extract the video and audio into an mpg file without costing you any quality. You can then try to edit this with Premiere.

However, if your editing needs are simple (basic cutting, no colour correction etc) then you might consider using Womble Mpeg Video Wizard, which will allow you to make your edits and to write a new mpg file without re-encoding and therefore mostlikely reducing the quality.

[ZZiNo]

Hey I just tried it but no dice. It created a 241mb mpeg, but then its only 4 minutes (as opposed to the original being 30 minutes) and it has no picture (yet it does have the thumbnail)... Only audio

[ZZiNo]

UPDATE: Ive used Wobble MPEG Video Editor to load the files and then just simply publish them as MPEG. It seemed to work... at first. Even though the editor can go through the whole file, when it exports it as either MPEG or AVI, the file cuts off about 4 minutes through... even though there is another 26 minutes to go. The video just ends... even though when I play the .vob files in WMP they go perfectly fine for the full 30 minutes.

Any ideas?

[guns1inger]

Are you opening the VOB, or the IFO ?

It sounds like the the files are corrupt and not reading correctly, or you are only reading one title.

[ZZiNo]

I've been opening the VOBs since Wobble wont let me pick the IFO anyways..

I think the files may indeed be corrupt. Is there any way to fix that? Since it still plays perfectly off the disc...

Or another method could be to just capture the video as it plays off my desktop? Are there any programs that will let me do that?

[tinker]

Why do not you try Mpeg Video Wizard DVD. It will let you edit and export DVD files ready to burn.
With Video Editor you will get mpeg file, than you need authoring software to make DVD.
If you do not want to edit just burn your existing VIDEO_TS folder to DVD with ImgBurn.

[ßsimian]

try this. copy both the vobs into a separate folder by themselves. run vob2mpg on that folder. compare the size of the produced mpg to the total of the vobs. they should be about the same. if they are then run a de-muxer(if you don't have one batchdemux works fine) on the mpg to get elementary m2v stream and audio stream. use restream to fix the video m2v stream timecode - open the m2v with restream tick reset timestamps and zero broken-link flags and save the new m2v. use the new m2v and the audio stream in premiere to edit.