Editing VOB files

[lika]

Hi. I need a help with editing VOB files.
My friend recorded my Birthday party and gave me DVD with VOB files. I want to edit them to make funny movie in Sony Vegas Movie Studio platinum 8.0, but after importing VOB files in the program, they become 25 sec long video clips.
I tried QuickMedia Converter to convert VOB files to AVI, but quality was terrible.
Can somebody advise me how can I import VOB files into Sony Vegas for editing with minimum quality loss?
Somebody advise me to buy a Capture Card and capture my DVD to my computer that way.
Which is better way to go, DVD Ripping Software or Capture Card?
Thanks,
Lika

[guns1inger]

Try VOB2MPG to extract the mpg video without re-encoding, then load those into Vegas.

[t0nee1]

Import your VOBs in avidemux and edit..If you use the 'Copy' profiles and save output format to sames as input, it will/should not re-encode...Then import the new file in SVMS....try it..

[qpskfec]

I use VideoRedo to cut and join vobs, then load the resulting mpg file into DVD Movie Factory or DVDFlick. There is no quality loss.

As long as Vegas accepts mpg files, then it should work the same.

[nikolla90]

I have similar problems.. I've used VOB2MPG to extract the mpg from ifo. I didn't lose quality and the video is fine, but when I import it in Vegas, 15 minute long video becomes 12 seconds long....

Why's that?

* and it's pretty urgent - i'm making a video for my girlfriend's birthday so...

tnx!

[usually_quiet]

Try demultiplexing the .mpg to create elementary video and audio steams. Rejig, VOBEdit and MPEG Streamclip among others will do the job. Vegas should be able to work with the elementary files.

[nikolla90]

tnx for advice, I used mpeg streamclip, but i'm not sure to which extension I must demux mpeg file, it seems like Vegas doesn't support any of these extensions (M2V, AC3, etc)..?

[usually_quiet]

Sorry I thought it supported elementary streams, but apparently not.

Re-multiplex the m2v and ac3 using MuxMan or ImagoMPEG-Muxer. You won't loose any quality by demuxing and remuxing. Hopefully it will fix whatever is causing the problem with the original mpg.

[nikolla90]

I think it's fine now!! Thank you VERY VERY MUCH! U should now that u'll make one georgeus girl happy because I've moved my ass for days to find a way out

[lika]

Thanks everyone for your advice. I tried everything, but it is not working, my video looses quality and it's becomes "jumpy". Is there any other way to edit or convert VOB file without losing quality? Any software or hardware I can buy to complete my project?
Thanks again.

[guns1inger]

Assuming there is nothing wrong with the files, you could try VideoRedo or Womble Mpeg Video Wizard

[nikolla90]

Thanks everyone for your advice. I tried everything, but it is not working, my video looses quality and it's becomes "jumpy". Is there any other way to edit or convert VOB file without losing quality? Any software or hardware I can buy to complete my project?
Thanks again.

Have you tryed VOB2MPG, it worked for me and didn't lose quality....?

[lika]

yes, I tried.Still there is a quality loss and audio is not sync with a video. Is there a professional software I can try?

[guns1inger]

Some people are so difficult to help : https://forum.videohelp.com/topic366935.html#1960617

[lika]

Thanks to everyone for help.
Do you think Capture card will do the job?

[usually_quiet]

Just what programs have you tried in addition to VOB2MPG and Vegas? Telling us that and describing of what you have done with them would be helpful.

VideoRedo and Womble Mpeg Video Wizard are good, consumer grade, commercial mpeg editing software. With all due respect, since you are posting in the beginner forum here, they are probably good enough for what you want to do, and if not, they are good enough to make clips to import into Vegas.

Have you played the DVD using a set-top DVD player rather than using your computer? Does it work OK? If you have a DVD player that can play back the DVD, you could use a capture card, though under normal circumstances. it should not be necessary to do that to edit DVD compliant home movies on your computer. If you want to try that approach, configuring the hardware and getting it to work the way you want may provide some challenges, and will make the quality worse. Maybe not enough so that you would notice, but that is a best-case scenario. If you want to do it anyway, create a new thread in the capture forum explaining what you want to do and and ask for capture device suggestions.

As far as quality goes (audio synchronization is another matter)...

VOB2MPG cannot affect video and audio quality. It copies the exact same video and audio contained in the VOB(s) into a different wrapper without changing them in any way, though apparently it does not always "re-wrap" correctly.

Demultiplexing cannot affect video and audio quality. It only copies the video and audio into separate files.

Multiplexing cannot affect the video and audio quality. It copies and combines the video and audio into one file.

[Richkut]

Not that this will make any difference in the quality of your subsequent .MPG file, but try just renaming the .vob files to .mpg files and try loading these into Vegas. VOBs are just a container for the underlying MPEG-2 files. I have routinely renamed .vob files to .mpg without any problem and have worked with them in DVD MovieFactory in the past, but never tried this with Vegas yet, though!