Trying to convert my DVD to a format that Adobe Premiere Pro 2 will recog.

[Sneezy D]

Hello, everyone! I'm new to this forum, and I've found it to be awesome, so far. The guides I've seen are well written. Here is my question -

I would like to take my DVD, and convert it to an avi, or mpeg, something that I can open up Adobe Prem., or Windows Movie Maker, and edit.

So far I have done this:

Straight rip from DVD Decrypter (i can now play the DVD as a DVD from my computer)

Demuxed it using PGCDemux, which provided me with an audio-only track, and a video-only track. However, when I try to import the video only track into any editing software, the program says it does not recognize it. specifically it says:

The file E:\Movies\Trans take 2\VTS_01_1.VOB is not a supported file type, and it cannot be imported into Windows Movie Maker.

Then I tried to use DVD Decrypter to do a "special" rip, as instructed to in this guide:

http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/guides.html

but that yielded the same results. I have been on this forum for 2 days looking through every conversion thread I could find, and tried many programs, but to no avail.

I would appreciate any and all help you folks could give me.

My name's Stu, and I live in Philly!

[dipstick]

Actually, you have many options, but if you're going to do a lot of editing, you may want to do this:

Open the vob in Virtualdub-Mod and save it as an AVI using DV codec for compression. The Panasonic DV Codec is free.
If you want to keep the quality as high as possible while keeping file size down to a reasonable level, use Huffyuv or Lagarith lossless compression codecs.

[lordsmurf]

I would do DVD Decrypter, open MPEG in VirtualDub (an MPEG-friendly version), and then save as uncompressed AVI. 75GB/hour hard drive space required.

[Sneezy D]

thanks for the responses, folks, I'll let you know how things turn out!!

[edDV]

thanks for the responses, folks, I'll let you know how things turn out!!

Why do you want to use Premeire Pro 2.0 for this? You need to force fit MPeg into Premiere.

[leebo]

I would do DVD Decrypter, open MPEG in VirtualDub (an MPEG-friendly version), and then save as uncompressed AVI. 75GB/hour hard drive space required.

Wow. 75 gigs per hour for an AVI??? I'm used to 25 gigs per hour, still a lot.

[Sneezy D]

thanks for the responses, folks, I'll let you know how things turn out!!

Why do you want to use Premeire Pro 2.0 for this? You need to force fit MPeg into Premiere.

What would you suggest?

Also - now my DVD players on the computer (PowerDVD, WinDVD 7) are not recognizing the dvd content of my movies folders, when they previously were. any idea what's going on?

it says:

Error Code: 80040265. Cannot play back the file. The format is not supported. (close button) (faded detailed button)

If I've played these movies using the players before, and haven't touched them since I ripped them to my computer, then that tells me that one of the new programs I've grabbed may have changed something. Any idea on how to bring it back? Aside from rolling back or something.

[edDV]

thanks for the responses, folks, I'll let you know how things turn out!!

Why do you want to use Premeire Pro 2.0 for this? You need to force fit MPeg into Premiere.

What would you suggest?

Premiere/Premiere Pro and other prosumer editing programs are intended for original production from camcorder (DV or HDV) or uncompressed sources. They aren't optimized for repurposing MPeg 1, 2, or 4 without decompression thus a generation (quality) is lost. The main justification for using these programs would be access to filters or special effects. In that case the MPeg needs to be uncompressed anyway so there is no additional loss.

Mainconcept makes a $250 add on product to Premiere Pro 1.5 or 2.0 that allows native MPeg editing including filters and effects. See Mainconcept MPeg Pro http://www.mainconcept.com/site/index.php?id=883

If you are just cuts editing, it is better to use a consumer program targeted at editing MPeg using the "smart render" technique where only frames that are altered are decompressed. See womble MPeg-vcr, ULead Video Studio, etc.

The addition of DVD camcorders and DVD recorders at the consumer level has made it important for consumer programs to import and edit VOB files directly. The latest versions of the consumer editors are adding this capability.

Pros don't care about editing VOB files so you don't find those features in the pro editing programs.