Importing home dvds in iMovie only gets first few seconds

[Garibaldi]

I am trying to import some home 8mm videos that I have put on dvds (no encryption). I bought the apple mpeg2 support for quicktime and imovie. I then tried opening the VTS_01_1.VOB and other vobs on my dvd in imovie, it imported all of them except one, which it said had a "parsing" error. The ones that it imported looked fine except for the fact that they were only a few seconds long and should have been around 30 minutes. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it?

[NightWing]

Not sure but are you opening it on the disk or ripping to the HD?

[Garibaldi]

Not sure but are you opening it on the disk or ripping to the HD?

I tried opening it from the disk, also importing from the hd, same result.

[NightWing]

Hum.... Just getting into myself on video using a Mac.

Let me do some thingking and looking. Will chech the guides.

EDIT: Simular thread to what you are running into. Try about 1/2 way down!

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249118&highlight=read+vob+mac

[Garibaldi]

Hum.... Just getting into myself on video using a Mac.

Let me do some thingking and looking. Will chech the guides.

EDIT: Simular thread to what you are running into. Try about 1/2 way down!

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249118&highlight=read+vob+mac

wow, sorry. The one time I didn't read for similar topics....
Let me know what you come up with, and I'll do the same.

[NightWing]

May take a day or two. Working on getting a data base to a client tomorrow. But darn intrested in this item...

[Frobozz]

Get MPEGStreamclip (free) and export the VOBs as a QuickTime movie (.mov). This can then be imported to iMovie.

[sjk]

"Use MPEG Streamclip" almost deserves a sticky since it comes up so often lately.