Video Capture -> Import DVD

DarrenD · Post by **DarrenD** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:31 pm

Hi
I am really getting into this import DVD feature for creating video files on my phone. The trouble is I created a long play DVD of my VHS tapes over 3hours long with over 50 chapters in it. Now when I import it with Video Capture it says I have only one chapter. I set about importing it and would then load it into Video Editor and manually put the chapter marks in again (taking the chapter values from WinDVD which can see all 50+ chapters). However, it is now 2 hours later and it is still importing! All my other imports were quicker than this. I noticed that the capture folder very quickly had a .MPG file of about the right size (6.5GB - it was a dual layer disc) but then a series of .JPG files were being created with the filename convention of ~SSJPG_<frame-number>.jpg
Has anyone got any idea why Video Capture is doing this? Is it a problem with importing from dual-layer DVD+R's? Is it a problem with so many chapters? I would have expected just the .MPG file, no .JPG files and a lot quicker.
Cheers
Darren

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 5:46 pm

Just to make sure you are singing from the same songsheet as the rest of us, are you importing as per this method?
Importing VOB files into MediaStudio

DarrenD · Post by **DarrenD** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:01 pm

Wow, what a speedy response.

Yes I did.

I have done a few of my DVDs before using this process and the import only took about 5-10 minutes with a single .MPG file. I forgot to mention that the current .MPG and .JPG files are in a subfolder rather than the desired folder as set by me in the Video Capture settings.

Now I got a 2GB memory stick for my phone I can be a bit more ambitious with longer DVDs.

Cheers
Darren

DarrenD · Post by **DarrenD** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:30 pm

Well we went to a friend's for dinner and when I got back Video Capture said it had run out of disc space, even though there was 6GB left on the capture drive and several GB on C drive. I checked the subfolder in Windows Explorer and counted 8.2GB with 144,142 files which is a lot more than the expected one .MPG file!
Before I went out I copied the .MPG file somewhere safe and will try loading it into Video Editor tomorrow - bed time now.
Cheers
Darren

DarrenD · Post by **DarrenD** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:09 pm

OK, sleep time over. The .MPG file that I copied from the subfolder was perfect. It had the full video, but only registered one chapter (the whole DVD). I don't know what all the .JPG files were for so I deleted them. I then went back to my DVD and manually wrote down the chapter points and then manually entered them into Video Editor's DVD Chapter Point Manager. I finally got what I wanted.

I don't suppose there is an easy way to take a Notepad list of chapter times and import them into Video Editor? It doesn't matter for this time as I did it by hand but would be useful to know in the future.

This problem might not occur for me again as that was the only DVD+R-DL disc that I had; they are too expensive compared to single-layer DVD+R's (if that is what caused the original problem)

Cheers
Darren

cgould · Post by **cgould** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 4:01 pm

Did you move the MPG file post-capture, to a different directory?
If so, did you also copy/move the *.upd file? That has the chapter info in it,
at least it does from rendered-mpgs...

DarrenD · Post by **DarrenD** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:24 pm

cgould

I am not sure I follow you with moving the .MPG post-capture. What I did was to take the original DVD and used DVD Shrink to get it onto my PC hard drive (saved as a DVD folder so it ended up with VOB and IFO files in a VIDEO_TS folder). If I then played that in WinDVD it said there were the 50+ chapters so I know DVD Shrink had got my home video off the DVD ok. I then used the DVD import in Video Capture but it only said there was 1 chapter. I let it import it anyway into folder D:\MyImportedDVDs. The import process took hours and hours creating a .MPG quickly but then set about creating a .JPG file one per frame of the video! This crashed out after about 144,000 frames. The .MPG and .JPG files were NOT in D:\MyImportedDVDs but in D:\MyImportedDVDs\<some-subfolder-that-I-have-forgotten>. I copied the .MPG from this subfolder into the top folder and loaded that into Video Editor and it seemed to have all of my home video.
Cheers
Darren