DV Cam or DVD to editable file for Premiere Pro

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I have a DVD as well as a DV Cam of my 16mm student film. I spent $150.00 transferring it and now I realize I can not edit it in either format. I have tried many different programs and many hours trying to get the .vob files from the DVD into a file that Adobe Premiere will accept. I used Gordian Knot with both Xvid and Divx Pro codecs and I got error messages that the file may be corrupt. I have tried the DVD decrypter, DVD2AVI, AVISYNTH, VOBSUB way too with no luck. I asked the place which did the transfer (Magno Sound & Video in NYC) if they could take the DV Cam and transfer it to either Mini DV or to a file I could edit and they said they could for $150.00 more. Is there a way that anyone knows to get either the DV Cam to a file without spending so much money or to get the .vob file into Adobe Premiere? I really need to get this film to be shorter and less boring if I want to try and use it to get a job!

Thanks to anyone taking the time to help me out.
Alex
 
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I have a P4 2.66Ghz 512MB Ram 250 GIG external HD. It's a dell with only two slots for memory and integrated graphics with no AGP port. I bought it two years ago without editing or much of the other work I now do on it in mind! Might switch to a Mac soon.
Thanks for replying.
 
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FlaskMPEG should be able to convert those VOBs to another format for you.. I'd suggest going to uncompressed, as you've already lost some quality with the inital dvd compression..

It works, a little buggy perhaps, but it'll do the job. I just helped a buddy get some archive footage of WWII off a DVD with it so he could edit.
 
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Thanks to you both. I tried DVD to DIVX VCD Ripper and was just happy to finally get something! I will try FlaskMPEG next to compare. Thanks guys for the help. I googled and tried several applications but you guys led me right to the right stuff. Thanks a ton.
 
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here's one way to do this: copy the largest vob file to your computer, just rename it to mpg and you will have a mpg2 file, you can even double click it to play back.

You can now import it as it is into premiere pro, don't edit (cause premiere will crash, since it's not optimize for mpeg2 editing, just lay it on the timeline, then export it out as an avi, once it is done, you got an avi format.

This quality would be better than divx codec quality :)

Now, my question , how come you said you can't edit dv cam version? you don't have a mean to capture it to the computer?

Johnny Wu
 
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mdifilm said:
here's one way to do this: copy the largest vob file to your computer, just rename it to mpg and you will have a mpg2 file, you can even double click it to play back.

You can now import it as it is into premiere pro, don't edit (cause premiere will crash, since it's not optimize for mpeg2 editing, just lay it on the timeline, then export it out as an avi, once it is done, you got an avi format.

This quality would be better than divx codec quality :)

Now, my question , how come you said you can't edit dv cam version? you don't have a mean to capture it to the computer?

Johnny Wu
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I'll definitely try the premiere method. I did change the extension and import it into premiere but then I tried to edit it and it said it was 19 seconds long instead of 4:50. I will try exporting it and then see how that turns out.

And that is exactly it. I could import mini dv but I don't have a camera or a deck to get the dv cam onto my computer. And the place that did the transfer, which put it onto dv cam before transferring it to film would charge me more than I am willing to spend to get the dv cam onto either a mini dv or into an editable file.
 
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