VOB and MPEG-2 Files Into Sony Vegas

This tutorial shows a "trick" for putting VOB files (or any other MPEG-2 file) into Vegas. This approach has two advantages over just trying to put these files directly on the Vegas timeline. First, you will not get any gaps, hiccups, audio sync problems, repeated frames, or truncated audio and/or video that often happen when putting VOB files into Vegas. Second, the playback performance on the timeline is stellar. The approach works with any version of Vegas, which means you can edit VOB and MPEG-2 files even on versions of Vegas with minimal support for these formats. This tutorial was done on Windows XP Pro SP2. I have no clue whether any of this works under Vista or W7.

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• Sony
• Vegas
• VFAPIConv
• DGIndex
• VOB
• MPEG-2
• tutorial
• video
• editing

[Wrestlingfan414]

Also I tried playing the file, it won't play in ANY of my video players.

[johnmeyer77]

@Wrestlingfan414 Perhaps you didn't install the VFAPIConv handler correctly.

[johnmeyer77]

@Wrestlingfan414 What O/S are you using? VFAPIConv is a VERY old hack, and I am pretty sure it doesn't work with any 64-bit O/S, and probably doesn't work on Win7. I run it on Win XP Pro 32-bit.

You might want to read about an alternative "serving" approach, detailed in this thread 162006 at doom9.org (I can't seem to post a direct link here).

[johnmeyer77]

The VFAPIConv program takes the d2v file information and converts it into a "fake" AVI file that can be loaded into most Windows program. When you click on the "Convert" button, this AVI "signpost" is created in less than one second. You should then be able to double-click on that AVI and play the original VOB or MPEG-2 file through the d2v-AVI chain. You can also load that AVI file into your editor. You MUST configure VFAPIConv (read the VFAPI install) for this to work.

[johnmeyer77]

Which version of Vegas are you using? Search in the Sony Forum under user name "johnmeyer" and type "drag drop" for the search term. The drag/drop functionality was diminished somewhere around Vegas 9. It worked fine in Vegas 8.

[pr9nkaholic]

I do, however, distinctively remember being able to import VOB directly into Vegas, many, many versions ago.

Hmmm..

[johnmeyer77]

@pr9nkaholic Yes, sometimes you can, depending on the VOB structure. However, many times the VOB will be truncated, or the audio will be out of sync or, if there are more than one VOB on the DVD, there will be a gap between the VOBs. This technique eliminates all those problems.

[Wrestlingfan414]

@johnmeyer77 Windows 7, so I guess that's why. Never mind my comments, I've found a way to convert the files to avi and it's the same quality.

Thanks for replying.

[Wrestlingfan414]

@johnmeyer77 Hmm, well the VFAPI Converter I downloaded didn't come with an install application, it just came with an application that went straight into it, no install.

[Wrestlingfan414]

Also I tried playing the file, it won't play in ANY of my vidoe players.

[Wrestlingfan414]

Did all this, however it wouldn't let me drag any of them onto the timeline using the explorer or importer in sony vegas. I'm using Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9. Any help?

[mdelmundo]

this really helped a lot. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[Leg3ndKilla687]

what do y do when you make it to where yo CONVERT and hit the button and "???????" you see that. i'm stumped.HELP!!!!!