cannot import .vob (DVD files) directly to VS 11

The Walrus · Post by **The Walrus** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:59 pm

I'm having the same issues.

I'm putting together a compilation of clips using DVD Shrink, but whenever I try to import them into Ulead, I get the message: "File Format mismatch."

I didn't get this message with v. 10.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:12 pm

Etch6355
Are you saying that I must always have a sub-folder named VIDEO_TS although my existing folders do contain all the files

If this is so, how on earth is a novice meant to know this?

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:29 pm

I have tried putting all the files in a folder Video_TS and whilst the OK button becomes active the import fails with an error message "Failed to read DVD information Report ID:0x80040901(2305)"

Any clues for the next move

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:38 pm

Etch6355
Are you saying that I must always have a sub-folder named VIDEO_TS although my existing folders do contain all the files

YES

If this is so, how on earth is a novice meant to know this?

The same way you learn everything else, drink beer (VS manual, video forums & the web is full of information on video editing).

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:52 pm

DVD folders ... hmmm ... well, a DVD folder must be a folder on a DVD or a folder for a DVD, mustn't it? And looking at a video DVD structure in a computer, there are two folders: Audio_TS (which is normally empty) and Video_TS. Hmmm... so I guess the only DVD folder I need worry about is a Video_TS folder... even if it has been made on, or transferred to, a computer.

And before the short-lived but welcome ability to be able to insert .VOB files directly into the timeline, which the Lord hath now taken away in VS11, we all had to use 'Import from Video folder' or 'Insert DVD/DVD-VR', which involved pointing VS at either a DVD in an optical drive, or a DVD folder on the hard disk, and highlighting the Video_TS folder. A new window would appear, showing the structure of the DVD (or DVD folder), and we could then highlight one of the 'chapters' and get a preview of it in the little screen on that window to make sure it was the piece we wanted. Then we would put a tick in the little box to the left of that 'chapter' and it would be imported...

Not intuitive, I agree. But whoever said that video editing was supposed to be intuitive -- let alone easy???