problem with NTSC DVD source in Vegas

[lilly_the_kid]

Hi everyone,

I hope somebody can help me. I usually use .VOB files in Vegas which works fine. However, I now encountered a problem I've encountered before where the clips on the timeline keep stuttering/looping and these stutters and loops keep changing. Last time I powered through and recut and recut clips, but it was a nightmare and I don't want to do it again.

The DVDs are region 2+4, but the format is NTSC. I started one Vegas project where I chose NTSC and one where I chose PAL in the beginning in both versions these stutters occur. It's hard to describe, the clip is like frame, frame, repeated frame, frame, frame, different repeated frame and so on, sometimes with frames being repeated that are quite far removed from the recent frames. And like I said this keeps changing and it gets worse.

I use DVDshrink for ripping.

I'm open to all suggestions, I will change my ways of clipping/ripping/converting, I am desperate. I really want to make this vid and I don't want the process of making it be horrible.

Thank you!!


ETA: post on lj with some great suggestions: https://vidding.livejournal.com/3329174.html

ETA: I'm currently trying a version of those and so far so good :)
Thanks for everyone's input!

Comments

[seekingferret]

My editor (Kdenlive) has a utility for 'remuxing' mpegs that sometimes helps clean things up when the vob files are a little corrupted. I think there are other utilities you can download that can do this remuxing thing, not that I know exactly what remuxing is or why it helps.

But in general vobs are never going to be ideal vidding source and you're usually better off, if you have the time and hard drive space, transcoding them into a more editable format.

[lilly_the_kid]

Thank you! I'm now converting the vobs to avi files and it works. Good to know I now have an alternative method.