how do I edit VOB with Adobe Premiere

[mliu4]

I have ripped home made DVD (from DVD based camcorder) into VOB files on my HDD. However, Premiere does not support VOB files so I used VOB2MPG to convert these files into MPG and then imported the MPG into Premiere, the problem is Premiere seems only recognize the first less then 3 minutes of a 17 minutes clip.

I've been struggling with this problem for many hours and have tried everything I can think of to no avail, please someone help me...thank you!

Michael

[guns1inger]

If the edits are simple cuts, and no fancy transitions, you would be better off using a deditcated mpeg editor such as womble.

You don't say which version of Premiere you are using. I believe Premiere Pro 2 can edit mpeg reasonably well, but earlier versions don't like it at all. You are better off converting to DV avi using virtualdub and the Panasonic DV codec.

[Caple]

To open MPEG2 files on Premiere I first use DGIndex to create a d2v file, then I use Vfapi Reader to make a fake-avi, which I open in Premiere without problems.

[mliu4]

Thank you very much for reply, guns1inger and Caple!! I tried both your suggestions and have found Caple's method works better - mainly because the tools are free

This solved my long struggled problem of letting Promiere to recognize my home video, thank you so so much for the help!!!

Michael

[newvidkid]

I tried caple's method. I downloaded both the applications and managed to get an avi file but when i tried to import it to adobe premier pro 1.5 it says "unsupported compression in file". What can I do?

[Baldrick]

Can you play the fake avi using windows media player?

[newvidkid]

No windows media player can't play the file.

[jagabo]

Use Gspot or MediaInfo to determine what codec is used in your AVI file. Download and install that codec.

[newvidkid]

i downloaded vob2mpg and converted the vob videos into one long mpg file. However the quality of the video is inferior as the video lags and is blurry at times. However i can import this mpg file. Thanks jagabo i'll try it out then i'll get back to u if it works.

[jagabo]

All vob2mpg does is remultiplex the MPEG 2 data in the VOB file into an MPG container. There will be no difference in the video or audio quality.