Re: Editing .vob files in Premier Pro 1.5

John Brim wrote:
I am struggling with this problem. I have PP 1.5 with the MainConcepts
MPEG Pro plug in. I have tried a variety of programs that purport to
convert un-encripted DVD .vob files to standard MPEG2 files. I've tried VideoReDo, Ulead
DVD Factory 3, and a variety of shareware programs that purport to read .vob files
and convert them to standard MPEG2 .mpg files.
Unfortunately inputting the resulting .mpg files to PP crashes the program.

The only thing I have found that works (badly) is Womble MPEG-VCR. One can
read the .vob file into Womble and then save it as an MPEG2 file, then
import the resulting .mpg file to PP. This, at least, does not crash PP but
the video quality is terrible--there is a great deal of flashing,
pixilation, etc. Same result when I use PP without the MainConcept plug-in
to input the Womble-produced .mpg file (and, of course, this converts the
video to .avi which I want to avoid)--it reads the file but the video is
poor. Searching Usenet does not provide any good answers--experienced PP
users usually advise playing the DVD on a stand-alone player and capturing
the video output via a video input card and accepting the resulting loss of
video quality.

It appears that PP is extremely picky about the .mpg format it will accept
and that the close approximations to the MPEG2 standard which Womble and the
other converter programs generate when they convert .vob to .mpg files just
don't cut it for PP. Is there truly no way to convert the MPEG video in a
.vob to a standard .mpg file that will be acceptable to PP? I hope somebody
has figured this out.



John,

Premire does not like editing MPEG files. MPEGS are for distribution and not editing. You would need to convert your MPEG file to AVI format that Premiere could read and edit. The Main Concept encoder only encodes your finished AVI file to MPEG1 or MPEG2 so that you can then burn your DVD from there. It does not allow Premiere to edit MPEGS.

Oscar
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