Sound not working in MSP8 after DVD Capture.

[mathis]

Hello,
My cousin sent me a video of his family singing a little song for his mother's birthday, so I can create a Video montage for her with it and some other pictures I have. He recorded the video with his analog RCA camera. He doesn't know how to create DVDs in his computer, so he just hooked the camera up to his RCA DVR and recorded it right to a DVD. It plays fine in my DVD player and my computer. I clicked on Import in MSPro and it brought it in. It says it is a TinyUDF DVD. But when I put the video in the time line, it plays the video, but there is no sound. I can open the mpg that I imported in Windows Media Player and it has sound. If I double click on the video that I imported in MSPro 8, I have video but not sound. Any ideas? In the caputure mode it says it is Dolby Digital 1 Channel. Before capture, it says:
Number of chapters: 1
Number of angles: 1
Number of audio streams: 1
Number of subtitle streams: 1
TV system: 525/60 NTSC
Attribute: 24 Bits, 352 x 240, 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.970 Frames/sec
Data Rate: Variable bit rate (MAX. 1200 kbps)
Total Duration: 00:01:09:02

I can use my Dazzle analog connector to go from my DVD player to my comptuer to caputre it, but I'd rather just capture it with MSPro 8 because he has some other home movie DVDs that he's made that he'd like for me to edit for him and add some special effects to and it be quicker for me to import them than have to bring them in with Dazzle.

Thanks,
Mathis...

[mathis]

I couldn't figure out how to do this in MSP 8.0, but I discovered that if I capture it in VS9.0, render it to mpg, then load the mpg into MSP8.0 I can do the editing I need to in it. Don't know why MSP8.0 doesn't recognize the sound, but at least VS9.0 does and I can do this, although it does take a little longer. But I can do so much more in MSP8.0 than VS9. and it seems easier than capturing it with my Dazzle Analog device, although I don't see any difference in quality.

Mathis...

[Ron P.]

Since you are trying to insert video from a DVD, did you use Video Capture? VS uses the command Insert DVD/DVD-VR when capturing video from a DVD.
In MSP8, you need to open Video Capture, then on the Capture Settings tab, hit the icon to the right of the Capture Format selection box. This menu will allow you to change the Capture Plug-in to Import DVD Plug-in. Under that, change the Capture Format to MPEG. Make any other changes, such as the Capture File Directory, File Name, ect., then hit the record button beneath the preview window.

A browse window will open, navigate to your DVD (which should be in the tray), or the location on your system where you may have copied the DVD folders to. Select the Video_TS folder, hit OK.

That should allow you to insert the video clips from the DVD.

[mathis]

Hi, Ron,
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I've used this option frequently with no problems. However, when I select "Capture Format" no matter what I change it to, it jumps back to MPEG. It has always done that, so it's no big deal because that's what I always want it in, anyway.

Again, this DVD format is TinyUDF and the mpeg that I capture works perfectly in VideoStudio 9.0 and Windows Media Player. The video is fine in MSPro 8.0 but there is no sound only in MSPro 8.0. When I When I hit preview before Importing, the sound plays fine. When I click Open video file in the timeline, I click on the imported file and it auto plays the preview, but there is no sound there, either.

[mathis]

Another weird thing is that if I edit the video I've captured in VS9, then the sound gets out of sync. As long as I just render it as an mpg, then I am able to edit the rendered file in either VS9 or MSP8.0 without any problems.

[Ron P.]

I don't fully understand the DVD format that his DVD Recorder used. However here's a start for you to read up on this tinyUDF file system.

http://www.storagelabs.com/products/tinyudf/

It could be using MP3 audio, which Ulead's editors seem to choke on, possibly due it not really being a standard audio compression. Ulead NLEs really seem to dislike MP3s that use the Lame compression.

According to Osta.org, Ulead Systems supports TinyUDF.