DVD to DV conversion question, again

[billcoffin]

I'm trying to extract VOB files into AVIs. I like VirtualDubMod, and have generated reasonable AVI files with several different codecs, but my editor (ScreenBlast) doesn't like them. (It does a very poor job of rendering these AVIs into MPG, producing a "jittery" effect.) ScreenBlast wants the AVIs in DV format. (The ScreenBlast website says they only really support DV format.) My problem is that the DV codecs that I've tried (canopus, panasonic) don't like the format of the VOB, and the other codecs (DivX, huffyuv, Xvid) don't >seem< to be able to generate DV format.

What I >think< I need is a way to specify one codec to extract from the VOB and a different one to encode to DV. Or I need a codec that can handle this. I've tried many tricks (like re-rendering from ScreenBlast) but nothing has worked. I even tried re-rendering a file out to my DV camera and recapturing! I've also tried renaming the VOB to .mpg and directly editing, which eventually works except that the quality has some loss and it takes several hours to import even two minutes of VOB into ScreenBlast. I've looked into AviSynth but can't find anything helpful in the documentation.

Suggestions? I looked at the earlier treatment of the topic but it didn't seem to offer anything that I didn't already know.

[troyvcd1]

try to put the "broken" avi files that were created from virtualdubmpg into your editing program. Then export the avi file. I have done this with premiere pro and the resulting avi files play good.

[billcoffin]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried it already, with many variations. (It seems to produce reasonable AVIs but it still does a bad job of converting those into mpeg.)

[choirislife923]

you can try vegas 5.

[avgeek]

Bill, one approach I've had some success with is rip the disk, then use DVD2AVI to make a project file (d2v) and a separate wav file, then use VFAPI to make a fake AVI file from that. Bring the fake AVI into Vegas (or any other editor that handles DV), bring the Wav file in with it and rerender back to DV. I've done this with good results and only had one problem (jittery video - I think the source in that one was done at 24 instead of 29.97)
-D

[Megahurts]

billcoffin

If you want to encode a VOB to AVI you can use TMPGEnc. It will convert it to DV AVI or any AVI you have installed on you computer. It will also covert VOBs to MPEG files. You can also select the source range of the VOB for AVI or MPEG files.

Hope this helps,

Chas