Need a VOB ripper

[mynameisjim]

I need a program to rip VOB files from a DVD into avi or mpeg.

No, it's not for piracy. A buddy sent me a movie to edit and instead of sending mpeg files on a dvd, he sent a dvd ready to play and I need to get the VOB files into a format that Adobe Premiere can work with.

Can any of you video guys recommend anything?

I dig a google search and tried a few programs but the output was bad and audio would drop out, etc.

[Lana]

Maybe I'm not getting you right Jim but just copy from your DVD to your harddrive.
You will probably get a VIDEO_TS file and inside that will be everything you need.

[mynameisjim]

Lana,

I don't think Adobe Premiere can accept files right from a playable DVD, at least when I go to "import".

[Lana]

Open your DVD drive, right click and copy to your hard drive then go from there.

[mynameisjim]

Thanks Lana, but I think you are thinking of a different program.

Do you use Premiere, Final Cut or Vegas?

[Lana]

Jim ... you're over complicating this.
First off a VOB file is just the package that a DVD comes in. The video file with the video, menus, extras etc. are all in the VOB file. It's just an envelope for the whole package. If you want to edit the video that's inside the VOB file. All DVD's are MPG2 that's the format for DVD. So, like I said just copy the DVD to your hard drive. Inside the VOB or VIDEO_TS file will be the actual video files.
Import them to your editor. You'll have to recreate menus etc. If your editor can't import them simply manually change the extension from whatever to .mpg. It will work. The "DVD ready to play already is MPG2" If you want a fool proof rip onto your hard drive use
DVD Decryptor It will rip your DVD and give you manageable files. Luv ya babe!!
We use Ulead, Vegas and Final Cut and what you're doing isn't a problem with any of them.

[mynameisjim]

Lana, I get what your saying, but Premiere doesn't support that it seems. Pretty lame that software that costs nearly $1000 can't do what a hundred dollar program can.

I could of spent that money on hookers!!

[Lana]

I can't believe Premier can't import it. Doesn't make sense. When you copy to your hard drive what is the extension? ... I just went to their website and they do it all. Top notch editing. They can import P2 and pretty well anything else.
Are you importing properly? The big guys like Final Cut and Premier can make simple things like capturing way more complicated than the hundred buckers. Again copy to your hard drive. Open the VOB/VIDEO_TS file and tell us the extension of what's inside. MPG, MOV what?
It can be done Jim. There's no way Premier can't import a simple DVD rip.

[mynameisjim]

That's what you would think.

I downloaded the Ulead software and had the file imported in about 5 seconds. Plus the video actually plays smooth in the edit windows. In premiere it would look like it was only playing every 10th frame or something which made editing nearly impossible. And I'm using a quad core machine with 2 gigs of ram and a nvidia 8600 video card.

[Lana]

Very odd. Well, just use Uleads free trial to do what you want to do.

[flasko]

don't forget that VOB is simply MPEG-2.

So maybe there's an MPEG-2 import in Adobe Premiere.

[Mr Softy]

Hey i see you mentioned Vegas. I had a similar problem. Rip with DVD Decrypter and when in Vegas you will notice when you try to Open/Import a .vob you can't but check this out.. when the file open thing under "files of type" comes up use the drop downlist and goto the top "all files" it is above the default and just select your .vob

[porn punk]

Jim, try this site out.

http://www.avs4you.com/ You want the avs video converter

I haven't done or used this stuff in a while now. Other things came up, but this should covert anything to anything and you can go from there.

I had the same problems as you (exactly the same, premiere for pc etc.) and I used this. I actually was after something to convert torrent downloads which is even more of a pain in the ass.

I think it's 29.00 to get a version that makes the watermark go away.

You may have to convert the entire thing which takes forever, but I think it will work

[Hyballs]

Hey porn punk, You go to the site and there's piles of stuff. Don't some company have a one package that does it all? Or do you need to buy bundled software to do it all.

[porn punk]

Originally posted by Hyballs
Hey porn punk, You go to the site and there's piles of stuff. Don't some company have a one package that does it all? Or do you need to buy bundled software to do it all.

Actually you're looking specifically for the "avs video converter 5.6 (unless there is a newer version, like i said it's been a while)".

There's lots of software out there to do this stuff (there's actually probably a plug in for premiere, but I can't find it), but this is the cheapest I've found.

Premiere doesn't seem to work like final cut pro, where it can convert files straight from the folder (in fact premiere doesn't convert very much without specific plug ins for each one.)

The beauty of this program besides it's price is that you can go from every which format to every which way and back again, and since I was making little parody clips and didn't know where I'd find my sources to splice together, I needed that advantage.

The disadvantage was it takes about one and a half to twice the length (in real time) of the actual movie to convert it. I think it took me an hour and a half plus to convert an hour episode of nip tuck I tested form a torrent download.

I couldn't find anything that would convert these torrent downloads which aren't dvd files and this was the only thing that would work.

I never did get to purchasing the version that didn't place the watermark though

[porn punk]

Here's the more specific link http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Converter.aspx

Download the free version first and make sure it's going to work for you. If it will you can buy the one that loses the water mark. To me it seems pretty cheap

[balls_deep]

not to hijack your thread, but i'm using "Ulead video studio" for all my video editing needs. It can handle (MP2) (VOB).

[porn punk]

Ulead's good I heard, but I had a lot of problems with it when I first started cutting back when.

I was doing a lot of stuff that wasn't in VOB or MPEG format coming off of avid's, tivo's and bit torrents so I ended up using roxio until dvd encore came out which seemed to be more comfortable with adobe things like after effects and premiere so I needed formats that could keep premiere from having run time errors.

If I was going to do anything serious, I'd pick up a mac and probably go with avid even over final cut pro, but again there seems to be a different player and vid format for almost every friggin video clip you find on the web these days. Companies are paranoid with all the free downloading.

Even the major animation studios create their own proprietary 3d applications similiar to miya and 3d studio max but not actually them (though this is a little off subject)