DVD in Vegas 8

[orangehenry]

Hi - I have a problem importing DVD into Vegas 6.
Some relatives of mine have sent me a DVD with alot of video they wish me to edit. This DVD is not protected but is in DVD format (it can be read on DVD players and contains .vob and .ifo files). I have tried to convert the files using DVD2AVI and VirtualDubMod but it doesn't work. If I have no compression in VirtualDibMod the file becomes 17 GB big and if I convert to Xvid or DivX then Vegas 6 will not accept the file.

My question is: Does anyone know a way in which I can edit these DVD fileson Vegas 6 (also I cannot get the original DV tape from my relatives, they overworte it).

Oranghenry

[benbryant]

If you like to use Vegas 6 to edit your DVD. I would like to recommend that instead of using DVD2AVI, you should use DGMPGDec (DGIndex) which is much more advanced modified version of DVD2AVI (http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/dgmpgdec.html) and VFAPI Reader 1.05 (http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=VFAPI_Reader). First, rip your DVD to your HDD with DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter. Second, start DGIndex and load all .vob files from the ripped DVD and save project (.d2v file). Third, open .d2v file with VFAPIConvEN from VFAPI Reader and click Convert to frameserve that file. Finally, open that file in Vegas for editing. You have to use VFAPIConvEN to frameserve .d2v file to Vegas 6, otherwise Vegas won't accept it

Regards

[orangehenry]

Thanks

Worked perfectly, my only question is: if the avi file i'm using is a frameserving file then will the video render properley in Vegas 6 assuming I don't delete any of the avi, d2v or vob files?

Thank you very much,
Orangehenry

[benbryant]

You are absolutely correct my friend. You shouldn't delete or even move files to different locations or folders until you know for sure that you've done everything. If the audio comes with the video is WAV or LPCM, please save them in AC3 that would save a lot of bytes. Glad that I can help

Regards