No need to shy away from mpeg per-se. Actually PPro edits mpeg just fine - indeed formats it handles well are the new Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM formats which are mpeg2, the format that is tough to handle is AVCHD which is NOT mpeg (it is H.264 based).
They say the reason VOB files can't always be renamed mpg is because of the inclusion of linkage identifiers, pointers, extra audio, and other extraneous embedded data which may not be present in a simple DVD format. I've renamed some simple VOBs to mpg and edited them just fine in PPro 1.5. Likewise I've attempted to do so on other DVD's that simply ended up crashing PPro 1.5, which I've since learned may be because they still contained non-mpeg data. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raymond D. Hong Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 9:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AP] Re: Re-using clips from DVDs .Simply renaming the VOB files into MPG and importing them to Premiere Pro 1.5 is not the best solution because MPG files are compressed into I-frames, P-frames, and B-frames. I-frames contain the entire picture whereas P-frames and B-frames contain only parts of the picture and must depend on the preceding or following frames to recreate the entire picture. Premiere Pro 1.5 cannot properly edit this type of compressed video . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
