vS 11, wrong importing videos from disc

[heleen busscher]

Hi everybody!

Sometimes I have a problem importing video's from a disc. After "insert dvd/dvd-vr" vs inserts de video's but cuts them off wrongly. For example:

There are 15 small video's on the disc and after inserting/importing I get to see the first part of video 1 and the second part of video 2 in one video instead of just the first video seperate from the second etc.

Does anyone have the same problem? or know what to do with it?

Heleen

[skier-hughes]

This can happen depending on how the disc is recorded.how you are importing.

Are you using VR recording mode?
Is the split between video 1 and video 2 on your disc due to you stpping and starting recording?
If so, how large was the time gap between them?

You can always split the video in VS and make your two seperate videos again, more work I know.

How are you importing?

Are you choosing just video 1?

[Ken Berry]

It also depends on the essential structure of a video DVD. Such a DVD cannot have any file on it larger than 1 GB. So in the authoring/burning stage, the program divides it up. This will often cut up a file at illogical points. However, on playback, it all seems seamless. But when you use a program like Video Studio, it sees the DVD from a programatical point of view. As you would realise, it also provides a directory tree-like structure when you use 'Insert DVD'. But this does not necessarily mean that it is divided by discrete scenes. Often you will have, say, the end of one scene and the beginning of another, but then that cuts off in mid-scene, only to be continued in the next 'chapter'.

In other words, it is often safer to import more than one 'chapter'. And once you have the ones you want, you line them up in the timeline, and, if you don't insert any transition at the breaks, and later recode them, the breaks will no longer be there!

[heleen busscher]

First a reply for Graham

I am taping horseback rides from a show and the split is indeed the stopping and starting from recording. The gap between differences from one minute to a few days.
Normally I am importing every ride from the disc by selecting them seperately and as soon they are on my computer they get another name and are stored in different maps for each horse....

Then reply for mr. Ken Berry,

The file is in total more then 1 GB. The sentence " Often you will have, say, the end of one scene and the beginning of another, but then that cuts off in mid-scene, only to be continued in the next 'chapter'" is exactly true! This is what happens. in the end I would like to have al different video's seperate so I have to cut them by hand?

Regards,

Heleen

[Ken Berry]

I repeat that the maximum size of a file on a video DVD can only be 1 GB. The fact that it might appear in your computer read-out to be 1,024,000 bits doesn't change that. It all has to do with the way computer memory is counted -- a question of of bits and bytes, which are not the same thing. Thus the smoke and mirrors of hard disk manufacturers, for instance, who sell you a hard disk rated (you think) to have 500 GB but when you in fact check it, only shows 467 GB...

Anyway, that little bit of arcana is by the by. But the reality remains that because of this limitation, the files on a DVD will be split at illogical places, though because of the DVD architecture, will play back seamlessly.

But when actually importing the video from the disc, you import the files, broken illogically as they are. And yes, then you have to edit them manually to get the bits you need. And if those bits include the end of one big lump from the DVD and the start of another, then simply put those bits together on the VS timeline side by side *without* a transition, and in the final render, they will (or should) play back as seamlessly as on the original DVD...