Help needed for getting videos from mini dvd disc

[jamesf121]

Hello, my sister has sent me 6 mini dvd discs that she filmed while travelling but when I try and get them onto adobe premier elements 8.0 it shows only 2 video files on each disc and the menu but there are 5-6 movies on each disc.

I am putting these mini dvd discs into my dvd drive and clicking on get media from dvd drive.

Any idea of what I should do?

Im worried I will not be able to get these movies and they could be lost.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

James

[Baldrick]

"Get media"? In Premiere Elements then?

Have you tried play the minidvds with a software dvd player?

Are those standard dvds? Do you see a video_Ts folder on the disc if you browse with windows explorer.

[jamesf121]

I click on get media, get media from D:\ (dvd drive)

Then it shows 3 files:

VIDEO_TS.VOB (Menu showing 5 movies)
VTS_01_1.VOB (video 1)
VTS_01_2.VOB (video 2)

I then click on get media at bottom and it gets the 2 videos and says it does not support the file which is the menu.

I have tried the mini DVDs in 2 computers and they play the 5 videos perfectly

On the mini dvd discs I can see only a folder called: VIDEO_TS like you said.

Thanks for your reply

James

[usually_quiet]

The 5 videos don't have to be arranged so that each is placed in its own VOB. Instead, all 5 most likely are contained in the VOB set made up of VTS_01_1.VOB and VTS_01_2.VOB. I don't use Premiere Elements, so I can't tell you how to do it, but look carefully at the video in these 2 VOBs from inside Premiere Elements and see what is there.

[redwudz]

Just to add, a standard VOB is 1GB maximum size. Since these are Mini DVDs, 2GB total sounds about right. As usually_quiet said, the 5 videos are probably contained in the two VOBs. You could also use a program like VOB2MPG and that would give you one big MPEG file of all five. Or DVD Decrypter may be able to split them into the separate videos. Videos can also span across VOBs, so one VOB may have a first part of one of the videos and the second the rest of it.

And welcome to our forums.

[DB83]

I do not know about Premiere Elements but Ulead (Corel) Video Studio has an import from dvd feature and will recognise the separate video titles (not just chapters) on a dvd.