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Earendil18 · Post by **Earendil18** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:07 am

Ok so I'm going through this nice (slightly aged?) tutorial by ErMaC on how to edit VOB in Premiere.

I'm using Premiere Pro and I have installed the HuffYUV codec, the Premiere AVISynth plugins, made sure everything was 1.0 pixel aspect ratio, and the best I can get is a screen with lots of horizontal/diagonal distorted coloring.

Is this just an old tutorial that won't work with the current versions of AVIsynth, Premire, and DVDMPEG? Anyone else had this problem?

My basis for wanting to edit VOB's is due to the fact that I'm trying to save filespace on my computer. I could copy this entire anime series onto my harddrive from all 4 of it's discs, but if I went and created a project file, then "compressed" the VOB's, the resulting AVI's would be 2 to 3 times larger than the original MPEG2 streams themselves. NANI???

So if people could either help me with the VOB thing I'd be greatful. Maybe some of you out here know of a good method of VOB to EditableVideo process that would work better, and not recompress into something HUGE in filesize.

Thank you,
~Ear

Jason 00 · Post by **Jason 00** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:24 am

I like to use the AVS/MJPEG swap method to edit DVD footage. There is no need to recompress the footage into a HUGE .avi file. Just rip the DVD to attain the .vob files create your .d2v file and write the script to best suit your footage. Now open your script in VirtualDub and recompress your footage with the MJPEG codec. The key is to lower the overall quality down to 10% in this way you will create a low quality version of the original footage (smaller file size). It is also a good idea to select No Audio in VirtualDub as well. Now you edit with this low quality version and then when you are complete just change the .avi files name. When you open your project file in Premiere this time it will request the location of the source material (because you changed the files name). Now just point it to your .avs script files and they should load in the .avi files place.

I would use the Amvapp and AD's guides over anything else. That should take care of your distortion problem. http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:31 am

Two suggestions for the rainbow screen problem:

1) In the HuffYUV codec options, check the "Always suggest RGB mode for output" box.
2) Add <b>ConvertToRGB32()</b> to the end of your AVISynth scripts and see if that helps.

Earendil18 · Post by **Earendil18** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:59 pm

Thank you both so much! I tried checking the always suggest RGB box didn't work, but I didn't try the AVIsynth line. I think I remember your method of editing being explained in the A&E guides somewhere, so I'll try it.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:15 pm

It sounds like the Premiere plugin you are trying to use isn't the correct version for Premiere Pro. You can download an updated copy here.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/videoeditorskit/

Also the guides have changed a lot recently, including the AMVapp. If you haven't started editing yet I suggest that you switch over to the new stuff. If you have... well you shouldn't change stuff around mid project.