Hey, guys I have a problem. I want to take video off DVD's (professionally recorded ones) and edit them. Just some practice/goof around stuff I'd like to do. I use Sony Vegas as my editor, and it supports opening of VOB files. Problem is when I do import VOB's I ripped from DVD, they have black frames, and various occasional glitches in the video. Somebody suggested this is because of the "extra" info encoded into VOB's. So after searching this forum I got RipIt4Me which said it could handle more than DVD Decrypter. I used it and did all the options to remove extra cells and all that (including VideoFixVTS), but the results were still the same.
So does anyone know of a good way to get a "clean" VOB rip for editing? Or do I just need to use something like ImToo and convert to AVI? I don't want to re-encode the video (or audio), but would be okay with a conversion to DV for the video & PCM/WAV (5.1) for the audio. However, I can't see how to do this with ImToo. It will export to Huffyuv, but nothing seems to be able to read the video. So unless there's a way to plugin another DV codec, that won't work. Plus, I'd hoped to avoid this extra encoding step (though I'm okay with it if there's a simple straighforward way to do it). So does anyone have any other ideas?
Update: ImToo doesn't work because it can't export to anything really useable. I've found a way to do it: use DVD Decrypter in IFO mode with Stream Processing set to Demux. Then take a great little program called SUPER and convert the .m2v files to AVI (Huffyuv). Then match up the AVI's with the .VOB's (which because they're Demuxed only have the AC3 surround sound) in Vegas. This works. However, using that codec takes tons of room.
Still looking for an alternate method. Prefrably using the .VOB's or transcoding (no re-compression) them into a format that Vegas will read correctly. So still... any ideas?
