Can Premiere import from a dvd?
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NERO Vision can. From there you can export it to whatever codec your computer has.
Frank
Frank
FUYAstudios
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If you can, Pull the vob file(s) off the dvd.
First video file usually is VTS_01_1.VOB
(check size, larger files will be the ones you want)
You might have to try a few of them until you find the right one, that is if there are a lot of .vob files.
Save it to your hard drive, desktop, whatever.
Now just rename it with .mpg on the end instead of .vob
There automatically mpeg2 files, that's the only video encoding for dvd.
import into premiere as asset, done.
I've done this a few times off mini-dvd video cams clients have given me.
First video file usually is VTS_01_1.VOB
(check size, larger files will be the ones you want)
You might have to try a few of them until you find the right one, that is if there are a lot of .vob files.
Save it to your hard drive, desktop, whatever.
Now just rename it with .mpg on the end instead of .vob
There automatically mpeg2 files, that's the only video encoding for dvd.
import into premiere as asset, done.
I've done this a few times off mini-dvd video cams clients have given me.
medeamajic
Carbonite Member
Interesting.
gonzoish79
Well-known member
pretty simple process.
plug your dvd player up to your dv deck. Set your dv deck to yc or s video and press f5 to bring up your capture. You will be able to do this with any dvd.
I do this all the time.
plug your dvd player up to your dv deck. Set your dv deck to yc or s video and press f5 to bring up your capture. You will be able to do this with any dvd.
I do this all the time.
medeamajic
Carbonite Member
Yes but you are skipping a generation by going analogue. If the DVD player had USB or Fire Wire that would work better.
kgimedia
Well-known member
Yes but depending on original quality or computer power the Analog hole can sometime be the best quality. This is because often the chip in the DVD Player that decodes to analog can be better then what a Computer can do depending on Codecs installed.
Random issues in the DVD files can also create problem with Audio synch and glitches.
That being said MPEG StreamClip is a great cross platform utility that can clip based on In/Out points and convert to many formats.
I worked for a major online video company that encoded 320 hours of video a day and they tested all option and pound for pound DVD players into capture cards was the best.
medeamajic
Carbonite Member
Yes and no. Out of 5 DVDs only one would let me drop and drag it to the C: drive and change the file extension. Once in the timeline it played like crap and the audio was out of sync. The other funky files must let the DVD player correct this audio sync issue. The MPEG files do not pay well in Premiere even after being rendered. On the other hand for the home DVD camera I think the method of changing the file would infact be the best method. I image they do play very well in the Premiere Pro timeline and would save time from manualy capturing it. In theory it is better not to change an MPEG file to a DV-25 file but the way the DVD Glass Master of Box office movies are formated it is better just to capture with analogue S-Video or component connecters. I was hoping FuyaStudio's method would work but it does not for commercial produced DVDs. I myself have always manual captured via S-Video from the DVD player and I will continue to do so.
What if you don't have a dv deck? Can you use something like the Canopus ADVC110: http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC110/index.php
Plug the dvd player into the ADVC110, plug the firewire out from ADVC110 into the computer, and capture the video with PremPro CS3?
medeamajic
Carbonite Member
I use the DAC-100 converter but the Canopus converter will work just fine.
Neal Buconjic
Well-known member
When I changed the extension to mpg I was able to import the files, but now there is no audio with the clips. Did you get audio with your clips when using this method?
PhantomVideo
Well-known member
its becuase the audio is AC3 with prem wont read, Use dvd decypter to demultiplex the streams first, from that you'll get a M2v and an AC3 file, the M2v will directly import into prem. And convert the AC3 to wav using be sweet you can get that at doom9.net
Actually, I've just had this problem of PremPro CS3 not reading the audio of an mpg file and posted here seeking help. Anyway, I found a solution on the adobe forums. Copy the file ad2ac3dec.dll from the Encore CS3 root directory to the PremPro root directory and that solves the problem. Audio using the ac3 decoder will now be recognized, as the file is the ac3 decoder. Works like a charm.
PhantomVideo
Well-known member
Woah Nice method have to try me that AC3 in prem cool, is it stable ?
PhantomVideo
Well-known member
DVD Decyputor,
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I haven't had any problems with it at all! It works just like it was designed that way. So yes, it's stable. I think a lot of others are doing the same thing from what I can tell on the Adobe forums.
David W. Richardson
Chapelgrove Films
I did this with a DVD of an audition someone sent to me. I use Premiere 6.0. It did pull in the resulting .MPG file -- but it thinks it's an audio MPEG, no video. I can, however, play the file just fine in Media Player. So go figure.
Hopefully later versions of Premiere handle this kind of file better.