Need help with ripping a DVD

[Rick Post]

Hi,

I'm making a movie for my grandparents who are married 60 years in a couple of weeks.
I want to use old footage that they've shot on their holidays etc that has been digitalized.

I have tried two different DVD rippers, WinX and Handbrake.
With both programs there seems to be something going wrong.
When I try to open the ripped footage (.mp4) VLC media player plays and stops instantly, Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 says that it's an unknown format or the file has been damaged and quicktime player gives an error 'Error -2048 :H'.

I hope that someone can help me out since I really need to make this movie.

Thanks alot!

- Rick

[Baldrick]

How big is the mp4? If you can't play it with vlc it must be corrupt.


Have you tried import the DVD vobs directly in Adobe Premiere Pro?
Copy the video_Ts from the dvd to your hdd first. If you can't copy it directly then use a dvd ripper like anydvd or dvdfab decrypter(just rip/copy files to your hdd). Then import the *.vob files from the video_ts folder. Or try use vob2mpg on the video_ts folder. It will create a mpg from the vob files. No video reconversion. Then import the mpg in adobe premiere pro.

[Rick Post]

How big is the mp4? If you can't play it with vlc it must be corrupt.


Have you tried import the DVD vobs directly in Adobe Premiere Pro?
Copy the video_Ts from the dvd to your hdd first. If you can't copy it directly then use a dvd ripper like anydvd or dvdfab decrypter(just rip/copy files to your hdd). Then import the *.vob files from the video_ts folder. Or try use vob2mpg on the video_Ts folder. It will create a mpg from the vob files. No video reconversion. Then import the mpg in adobe premiere pro.

Adobe Premiere Pro does not support my vob files, I think it would be smart to try Vob2MPG. So that is what I'm gonna do right now.
Thanks alot for your help.

I forgot to mention that half an hour of footage is 3,99GB and that the complete DVD is about 3 Hours so I splitted it up in segments.

[Rick Post]

Vob2MPG seems to work, I got a message saying that the extraction was done but now the program says that it is fixing 'timestamp discontinuities' which seems to take a while. Is it done yet or what is it doing?? if the extraction process is already finished.

[Rick Post]

Okay VOB2MPG works but only gives me the first 26 minutes of the DVD so that's still a problem.

[Baldrick]

Did it just create one mpg file? If it's several dvd tracks you might get several mpg files.

Is it 26 minutes in Vlc media player also? Or just adobe premiere pro?

[Rick Post]

Did it just create one mpg file? If it's several dvd tracks you might get several mpg files.

Is it 26 minutes in Vlc media player also? Or just adobe premiere pro?

It is one mpg file that is 26 minutes in VLC, There is only a single mpg file in the process of VOB2MPG I could only select Video_TS.ifo as file to be converted.

Thanks alot!

[Baldrick]

Can you play the entire dvd if you open the video_ts folder in Vlc media player?

[Rick Post]

Can you play the entire dvd if you open the video_ts folder in Vlc media player?

Yes I can, is it maybe that I need to use VOB2MPG's vobset mode??

[Rick Post]

Okay it works now, Thanks alot!!

[Rick Post]

It was too good to be true, Premiere Pro error 'unable to decompress audio or video'

After Effects Error, File is damaged or unsupported. But I can play it now on VLC

[Baldrick]

The mpg file from vob2mpg?

[Rick Post]

The mpg file from vob2mpg?

Yes

[hech54]

No wonder I've never used Premier.....from what I've seen here at videohelp....it doesn't open sh!t.

[Rick Post]

No wonder I've never used Premier.....from what I've seen here at videohelp....it doesn't open sh!t.

I always use premiere and after effects but that's when I edit music video's for my clients and for my band, this is something completely new to me.

[Hoser Rob]

I also think it may be time to try another program. Avidemux has worked with almost everything for me. The only one I've used that's opened flaky codecs better is openshot, which unfortunately is only a linux program. So I'd recommend avidemux for you.

[Rick Post]

I also think it may be time to try another program. Avidemux has worked with almost everything for me. The only one I've used that's opened flaky codecs better is openshot, which unfortunately is only a linux program. So I'd recommend avidemux for you.

Thanks I'm gonna try.

[smrpix]

I forgot to mention that half an hour of footage is 3,99GB and that the complete DVD is about 3 Hours so I splitted it up in segments.

This is very confusing. I can read it to mean you are either using an illegally high bitrate and spreading your show over 6 DVDs, (which is consistent with 26 min VLC playback) or you are using a dismally low bitrate and stuffing 3 hours onto one DVD.

A Mediainfo report from one or more of your vobs would be helpful, because something here isn't right. A normal, non-commerial, non-copy-protected DVD should import without problems into PP CS6 using the method Baldrick described.

Have you tried import the DVD vobs directly in Adobe Premiere Pro?
Copy the video_Ts from the dvd to your hdd first... ...Then import the *.vob files from the video_ts folder.

[Hoser Rob]

I forgot to mention that half an hour of footage is 3,99GB and that the complete DVD is about 3 Hours so I splitted it up in segments.

This is very confusing. I can read it to mean you are either using an illegally high bitrate and spreading your show over 6 DVDs, (which is consistent with 26 min VLC playback) or you are using a dismally low bitrate and stuffing 3 hours onto one DVD.

A Mediainfo report from one or more of your vobs would be helpful, because something here isn't right. A normal, non-commerial, non-copy-protected DVD should import without problems into PP CS6 using the method Baldrick described.

Have you tried import the DVD vobs directly in Adobe Premiere Pro?
Copy the video_Ts from the dvd to your hdd first... ...Then import the *.vob files from the video_ts folder.

Jeez, I missed that. He's right. Something sounds weird.