importing VOB files

[richmittel]

I have Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11. I cannot seem to import *.VOB files. Is it possible to do so?

richmittel

[sidd finch]

I think you can try and re-name the video from VOB to MPEG then they should work.

Sidd

[vkmast]

The famous "Gary James method" from the SCS forum known to work with VMSPlatinum 11 as well.

"Subject: RE: How to load VOB to Vegas (and other questions)
Reply by: Gary James
Date: 10/4/2012 8:36:42 PM

Sony supports an undocumented way of importing an entire DVD movie title:

To open up the VOB file chain in Vegas, select the Vegas File / Open menu. Then Navigate to the DVDs VIDEO_TS sub-directory. Type in *.ifo in the dialogs File name input field. Open the VTS_01_0.IFO file. This will completely load the entire DVD Video and Audio streams from all VOB files back into Vegas. As an added bonus, it will include DVD chapter marks as media markers in the imported media.

It's wise to copy these files to your HDD first. Editing directly off a DVD is possible, but will be agonizingly slow.
This is, of course, for DVDs that are home made, not commercially (copy protected) DVDs."

[Steve Grisetti]

Wow! These are great tips, guys!

[Bob]

Renaming the vob to mpeg will somewhat work, but you will lose some content because of the way vob files are created. If you have more than one vob and try to put them back together in Vegas you will have gaps. To prevent that, you would need to concatenate the vob files together, in order, to create one large file and rename that to mpeg.

Bottom line: Opening the VTS_01_0.IFO file as described by vkmast is the easiest and best way to go.