VOB file creation failure

Loue · Post by **Loue** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:35 pm

I am trying to burn my first DVD and I keep getting the followin message (in French) : VOB file creation failure

I am working with DVD Movie Fatory for Toshiba 5.51.0018.0

Can anyone send me in the right direction to solve this probloem.

Thank you,

Loue

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:58 pm

What format are you converting from? It's usually a decoding problem, rather than an encoding problem. ...The more-compressed formats (i.e. MPEG-4) seem to cause the most trouble.

Loue · Post by **Loue** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:28 pm

I edited video's from a mini Panasonic DVD RAM. I also added audio from a regular CD.

I am very new at this, and not to sure I have answered your question.

The editing went pretty well (though I wish we had more control over the sound (variation from one section to another). But I would be happy to just be able to burn this first DVD.

Then, I'll have to edit from RW DVD. But I purposely left those shots out for now.l One thing at a time.l

Do you know what a VOB file is? I cannot find this anywhere in the user guide.

Thanks,

Loue

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:58 pm

I edited video's from a mini Panasonic DVD RAM.

From a camera that records directly to a DVD? In that case, it's probably MPEG-2 or MOV (MPEG-4). If you right-click on one of your clips in the Movie Factory "timeline", you can determine it's detailed properties. Or, you can check your camera's specs.

MPEG-2 is not as compressed as MPEG-4, but MPEG-2 can sometimes be "difficult" to edit (or recode) too. It may depend on the source and quality of the original MPEG. Both VideoReDo and Womble have tools that can repair some MPEGs, and both offer a free trial. I now use the Womble editor for the editing step, and I no longer have any "weird" MPEG problems.

I also added audio from a regular CD.

If you ripped the CD to WAV, the audio shouldn't cause any problems. But, just like video, compressed audio files can sometimes be trouble, so you should avoid MP3 if possible.

Do you know what a VOB file is?

The video in a VOB file is MPEG-2 encoded. The audio is usually Dolby (AC3) or LPCM. All DVD players are required to play Dolby and LPCM, the other formats are optional. So, all commercial DVDs contain one of these formats. Commercial DVDs may also contain an additional DTS track.

Not all MPEG-2 files are DVD compliant. There is a chart on this page that shows the requirements for a video DVD.

Loue · Post by **Loue** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:45 am

Right, the clips were taken with a Panasonic VDR-D300 DVD Palmcorder
and it is MPEG2 compression
and Dolby Digital (Dolby AC3) Audio compression

I was excited when I realized that Ulead Movie Factory, which came with my laptop, was a Corel product, because I like their products and I find the Corel community just great. Am I to understand that it is not compatible with my videos? Are VideoReDo and Womble other options (replacements) or are they a necessary step before using Movie Factory?

I understand now, from reading the forum, that my version of Movie Factory is not a complete one. However, before I invest in a program, I would like to check different options. And, without highspeed internet, I will have to wait till I have access to it, before downloading and trying anything else.

Thank you. I will get back to you.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:23 am

The first thing that we need to establish is that you are importing the DVD correctly.
From the launch screen select Import/Capture, then select Import from DVD.
It is then very similar to the method in this post relating to its sister product VideoStudio:
VS : Importing DVD Files

Womble and VideoRedo are purpose built MPEG Editor programs - useful when you have recorded something with a TV card. They are not much good for DVD Authoring. MovieFactory is mainly a DVD Authoring program.
Whilst you can do limited editing in MovieFactory - to do any serious editing you need an editor program. The Ulead range of the Corel family includes 2 major video editing programs :-VideoStudio and also MediaStudio.
These two editors are designed to work with a wide variety of video formats as opposed to Womble and Video/redo which both specialise and only work with MPEG video.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:22 pm

Loue wrote:.....
I was excited when I realized that Ulead Movie Factory, which came with my laptop, was a Corel product, because I like their products and I find the Corel community just great. Am I to understand that it is not compatible with my videos? ......

I just checked my copy of DVD Movie Factory 5 for Toshiba on my Vista laptop - hadn't taken any notice of it before because of the various versions I already have on my other computers. I was quite surprised to see that it looks like the full version. No doubt if I look hard enough I might find a few missing items but there is nothing obvious missing.

Loue · Post by **Loue** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:06 am

Thank you for the support,

I managed to burn my first DVD using RW clips and skipping the menu. Right in the middle, however, there are some very jerky images. What could cause this? Sometimes, my computer has short blackouts, so I am wondering if laptop might be the problem.

Also, I wanted to add a slide show but I was unable to import the photos, JPG format. I cannot find any information as to what photo format is compatible.

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:30 am

The MovieFactory for Toshiba is a special build. You can't update the software from the ulead/corel website. It was written specially for the Toshiba laptop. I'm not really sure why it's special, maybe because your using Vista? I think your version is also before MovieFactory 6+ was released.

Others that have your same version also have reported a failure to be able to insert jpg image files. Some have posted that they re-installed the MF for Toshiba again (over the existing version) and this corrected the problem.

MovieFactory can handle the videos from your panasonic camcorder. There is a difference in the framesize though that panasonic uses compared to sony and other brands.
So when you start MF click on the GEAR Icon -> "Change Mpeg Settings -> Customize" and make the framesize 704x480 for NTSC OR 704x576 for PAL (whatever the video format is for your camcorder).
Use Upper_Field_First as your fielding settings. It's important to match your project settings with your source videos. To see your source videos settings from the timeline after you import the dvd then "Right_Click" on the video and select 'Media Properties". Write down the properties of the source media. It will also be different depending on the mode you recorded at in the camcorder (HQ/SQ/LP etc).
But the point is to make the "Project Settings" equal to your source video settings. You don't want MF changing your Framesize to another framesize. 704 is a valid standard dvd format framesize.

Importing dvd's from dvd recorders is tricky, after you learn the basics then MF will work pretty nice. It takes awhile to learn MF so I suggest perform a search on "etech6355" to look up some of my previous posts on making templates, matching the project settings, using the export features

Also, it's important to remember where your assigned working folder resides, under Preferences, (F6 Hotkey). The videos you import from the minidvd end up on the harddisk in a folder called "Capture" that resides directly below your assigned "Working Folder" (that you have assigned under "Preferences"). You don't have to re-import the videos again to access them, they are on the harddisk after you import them. you can copy them, rename them & use them in other projects by just inserting them into the timeline again.

Hope this helps