Import media: Missing half a second of audio at end of chapters.

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Hi,

I run audio for a show that airs on our local TV station. I’m trying to edit a segment of the show and burn it to DVD for one of the guests but I’m having a strange audio problem. Here’s the run down:

We tape the show at the station and then burn a copy to DVD on the stations equipment.

I bring the DVD home and load it into Vegas 8 Pro.

The original DVD is segmented into 6 “chapters”. There’s no rhyme or reason to where the chapters are placed, but they’re there (must be something that the gear at the station is doing) and the DVD plays back fine on a DVD player. No glitches.

Here’s the strange part, the DVD loads into Vegas (I used the “import DVD camcorder disc” function) and there are no problems with the video portion. But at the end of every chapter there is about half a second of audio missing. Now, keep in mind that the original DVD plays back fine. This only happens in Vegas.

Should I be using a different function to load the media? Is there a way to load the media but tell Vegas to ignore chapter markers and just load it as one file?

Thanks for any help.
 
Vegas seems to have issues with multiple files that correspond to one big video. You may try using copy/b command for those VOBs and make one big file out of them, provided that your file system allows large files (meaning, it is not FAT32). Or you may try 3rd party software to recombine those VOBs.

EDIT: As VOB is a program stream, not transport stream, copy/b won't work with it, stupid me.
 
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Some of those 3rd party software options to append into a big video would be vob2mpg , or mpg2cut2, or dvd shrink to rip as 1 title
 
Hey, thanks for the helps guys.

I have to say it's a bit disappointing to think that a high end program like Vegas 8 has this sort of problem. I mean, this is pretty basic stuff. Is there no way to tell Vegas to load the show as one file? Don't split the file at the chapter ends?

In the mean time, I'll try some of your suggestions.
Thanks again,
BC
 
Instead of using the DVD camcorder import, try going into the DVD using Explorer, and then, from the Video_TS folder, take out the .VOB file with the program on it (this will most likely be the largest file, so look at byte size), transfer it to your hard drive, and then try bringing into Vegas from there.
 
Here's how you can get that audio back. Use the DOS copy command to merge them all into a single file. Something like

Copy /b file1.mpg + file2.mpg + file3.mpg + file4.mpg outputfile.mpg
 
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