Hillclimber
11th October 2004, 18:45
Gentlemen,
This is my first posting - I hope I've done it correctly.
I have a problem importing an audio/video file from DVD into my NLE package. Much scanning of your excellent forum and guides has not shown me the light. Any guidance you can give would be most gratefully received.
I'm running Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 on a P4 3GHz Prescott machine with 1GB of RAM, oodles of HDD space and Matrox RT.X10 Xtra. Capture and edit of DV material from camcorder is fine.
The basic problem is this: when transferred to the Premiere Pro timeline the video clip shows coloured striations in the poster frame; the audio is good. When I try to review the timeline in the Programme (Sequence) Monitor the clock runs but the display is black or coloured noise, good audio.
Now for all the details:
Recently I bought a commercially produced DVD (PAL) and want to use about one minute of that in Premiere Pro, for my personal use only. I can get that one minute of VOB onto my HDD using DVD Decrypter (IFO mode with stream information, one cell of one chapter).
The log tells me
"Source Media Type: DVD-R",
"Source Copyright Protection Scheme: None" and
"Remove Macrovision Protection: Yes".
In my VIDEO_TS folder I get
a 34MB VOB file called VTS_01_PGC_01_1,
a file called VTS_01_0.IFO, and
VTS_01_PGC_01 - Stream Information.
I can open and play the VOB file with PowerDVD; the video and audio are good. The on-screen details tell me that the video is MPEG-2 and the audio is Dolby Digital 2.0 256kbps.
Now the VOB file must be converted to .avi in order for Premiere Pro to be able to use it, so, using AutoGK 1.60 I convert the input file VTS_01_PGC_01_1.VOB into the output file VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avi.
The AutoGK window tells me "Unknown Audio" so after some experimentation in Advanced Settings I "force" the audio to CBR MP3 256kbps. Other Advanced settings are XviD codec and Maximum width 720. The Output Size is selected at the default 1400MB.
Having converted, now in my VIDEO_TS folder I get the additional:
agk_tmp folder, the VTS_01_PGC_01_1_agk log, and
the file VTS_01_PGC_01_1 which is described as "Video Clip", not .avi, size 59.1 MB.
(If I select Target Quality of 80% the file size is 40.9MB.)
I can open and play, perfectly, that Video Clip in Windows Media Player and I can import it into Premiere Pro Project window where it is listed as VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avi, of type Movie, 25fps, 720x544, audio 48kHz compressed stereo. I can open the file in the Source Monitor and play it with audio, also in the thumbnail (the first frame is always black in the thumbnail but not in the monitor).
However, when transferred to the Premiere Pro timeline the video clip shows coloured striations in the poster frame; the audio is good. When I try to review the timeline in the Programme (Sequence) Monitor the clock runs but the display is black or coloured noise, good audio.
What am I doing wrong?
With thanks in anticipation,
Hillclimber.
This is my first posting - I hope I've done it correctly.
I have a problem importing an audio/video file from DVD into my NLE package. Much scanning of your excellent forum and guides has not shown me the light. Any guidance you can give would be most gratefully received.
I'm running Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 on a P4 3GHz Prescott machine with 1GB of RAM, oodles of HDD space and Matrox RT.X10 Xtra. Capture and edit of DV material from camcorder is fine.
The basic problem is this: when transferred to the Premiere Pro timeline the video clip shows coloured striations in the poster frame; the audio is good. When I try to review the timeline in the Programme (Sequence) Monitor the clock runs but the display is black or coloured noise, good audio.
Now for all the details:
Recently I bought a commercially produced DVD (PAL) and want to use about one minute of that in Premiere Pro, for my personal use only. I can get that one minute of VOB onto my HDD using DVD Decrypter (IFO mode with stream information, one cell of one chapter).
The log tells me
"Source Media Type: DVD-R",
"Source Copyright Protection Scheme: None" and
"Remove Macrovision Protection: Yes".
In my VIDEO_TS folder I get
a 34MB VOB file called VTS_01_PGC_01_1,
a file called VTS_01_0.IFO, and
VTS_01_PGC_01 - Stream Information.
I can open and play the VOB file with PowerDVD; the video and audio are good. The on-screen details tell me that the video is MPEG-2 and the audio is Dolby Digital 2.0 256kbps.
Now the VOB file must be converted to .avi in order for Premiere Pro to be able to use it, so, using AutoGK 1.60 I convert the input file VTS_01_PGC_01_1.VOB into the output file VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avi.
The AutoGK window tells me "Unknown Audio" so after some experimentation in Advanced Settings I "force" the audio to CBR MP3 256kbps. Other Advanced settings are XviD codec and Maximum width 720. The Output Size is selected at the default 1400MB.
Having converted, now in my VIDEO_TS folder I get the additional:
agk_tmp folder, the VTS_01_PGC_01_1_agk log, and
the file VTS_01_PGC_01_1 which is described as "Video Clip", not .avi, size 59.1 MB.
(If I select Target Quality of 80% the file size is 40.9MB.)
I can open and play, perfectly, that Video Clip in Windows Media Player and I can import it into Premiere Pro Project window where it is listed as VTS_01_PGC_01_1.avi, of type Movie, 25fps, 720x544, audio 48kHz compressed stereo. I can open the file in the Source Monitor and play it with audio, also in the thumbnail (the first frame is always black in the thumbnail but not in the monitor).
However, when transferred to the Premiere Pro timeline the video clip shows coloured striations in the poster frame; the audio is good. When I try to review the timeline in the Programme (Sequence) Monitor the clock runs but the display is black or coloured noise, good audio.
What am I doing wrong?
With thanks in anticipation,
Hillclimber.