A Man For All Seasons... - Page 2

Marc Peters · #11 (**permalink**) 04-12-2006, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by Ian in Northampton

Addendum: trying to import the .avi file into Windows Movie Maker - I get a codec error. Opening the .avi file in Media Player gives me a codec error - but the clip still plays, but without sound.

Also, it looks like I've screwed up the settings in VirtualDub. The DVD movie is in widescreen, but it looks as if I've ripped it as 4:3. What setting did I miss - and what should I use?

Try ripping the audio from the DVD as WAV (uncompressed), then re-muxing in Premiere. If you start a 16:9 project in Premiere, you can also interpolate the footage to strectch it back out again.

Ian in Northampton · #12 (**permalink**) 04-13-2006, 08:16 AM

Some interesting tips - thanks guys. Hopefully, I'll have time to try tem this evening.

Ian in Northampton · #13 (**permalink**) 04-18-2006, 08:32 AM

OK, team, need some more help please...

I duly ripped the DVD to my hard drive. Although I don't remember specifying any details about the rip, it looks as if it successfully ripped as a 16:9/widescreen movie.

Mark's advice seems to have been good. I renamed the .vob files as .mpg and was able to import one into Premiere. I even managed to edit it successfully - inserted a new rolling credit. However, playback was very, very erratic - miss several frames then restart, sometimes losing sound altogether.

However, the big isues were 1. Despite the ripped .vob/.avi file being 16:9/widescreen (double clicking on it caused Media Player to play it correctly as a 16:9 movie), when I imported it into Premiere, having set up a widescreen/PAL/48kHz project, it imported as a 4:3 aspect ratio image with black bars either side of the screen, and 2. Try as I might, I could only get Premiere to import one .vob/.mpg file. I could import one, get it onto the timeline and edit it - but as soon as I tried to import a second, Premiere either hung or crashed. It didn't matter which file I imported first or second - importing the second caused a hang/crash. Needless to say, these were 1GB+ files.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the 16:9 issue, and on the crash/hang when trying to import a second file?

Ian in Northampton · #14 (**permalink**) 04-19-2006, 08:44 AM

Bump... Surely someone out there has some insight as to why a 16:9 .avi file (that was previously a 16:9 .vob file) won't import correctly into Premiere Pro?

I'm interested by the other problem - of not being able to import a second .avi file into the project - but can live without solving it: I'll just give my father a DVD with only the first 30 minutes of the movie on it, including the adapted credits.