Messages posted by Rebecca

Good no GREAT news guys!!!

Thanks to all your wonderful help I have been able to edit together one of the clips I wanted to do for the friends who wanted to see it AND successfully uploaded it to youtube so they can watch it!!

I owe all of you all a debt of thanks...you all are wonderful and I know where to come when I get stuck again!!!!

So thanks to McLean, Tony, Jamie and anyone else I missed for all your help, patience, and suggestions. I could not have done this without you...

May God bless you all
Becky

well I've had a couple of days where I've been too busy to continue working on the project with any continuity but I've managed to get two of the files to convert but haven't had a chance to see about the others OR to try and get the audio separated to work on the volume of it...

this dvd was made from a recording made while we were in MO (I live in TN about 12 hours away and it was give to us before we left) so its a little hard to get the original files but hopefully thanks to all you wonderful folks I will be able to do this...

If I can succeed in getting it to work and edit into some decent clips, I will be eternally grateful....heck I'm already eternally grateful for your patience in putting up with this technologically challenged mom...

Maybe I can work on it some more tonight if all goes well...will keep you posted
Becky

okay let me see if I can catch up.. (and a little bit of good news, I think)

I tried both extracting and splitting the audio in PD after you all gave me that suggestion and in both cases the wav files are not showing anything so obviously it is not finding audio (or at least that is my assumption)

yes Tony I tried just changing the extension and that didn't work but also tried 3 or 4 different programs (to be honest I don't even remember the names of them, they have all run together as I have read about so many and downloaded and tried I can't remember what I have used and what I decided wouldn't work) but THANK YOU FOR THE LATEST LINK to the latest program...it worked for converting one of the problem files unfortunately the audio is pretty low on it...any ideas for that???

McLean, four of the files are .99 gb (yes gigs) and the last is smaller. When I realized that moviemaker wouldn't do it (I had only used movie maker for previous attempts from my own video csmera downloads prior to this) I downloaded version 7 (the upgrade from the trial version on my laptop) because everything I read said it was the easiest for beginners.
I imported the files into it just like I did into moviemaker and the video would show for all 5 files but there was only the squeaks for audio. On MM two of the files would not play video or sound (just a solid black screen) but the other three played just fine.
After importing and not being able to get sound except for squeaks I tried saving it and seeing if it would play in media or mm and it would not. I tried to separate sound at that point and nothing, so thought I had done something wrong. So erased it all from the library for the second time and re-imported it from the dvd for the third time (this is where I know its being stored repeatedly somewhere on my hd because my available space keeps going down but don't know where..alas but that's a different issue)
So I came here asking for your kind help and you pretty much know what I have done from there I think...

As I mentioned above, there has been a little bit success with that latest program Tony posted a direct link to, but the audio is low...I don't know if it will work for the other four (well three are really all that is majorly important, one is just singing and its not me so I'm not too awfully concerned about that section

so now you're up to date I think...
Becky

ok guys here's the status (and THANKS SO MUCH for your patience)

I tried changing the type file-that did not work
I tried extracting the audio and muting then putting the wav file below- that did not work, in fact it resulted in silence as though there was nothing on the wav file which made sense since the wav file basically had no size so I assume it didn't extract correctly
I have tried converting it to mpeg and avi and no luck with either one, they still don't work
(I gotta figure out where in the heck it keeps storing all these attempts as my hard drive keeps losing available space so I know they are going somewhere LOL)

so honestly I am at my wits end...and ask of you....is there any hope for being able to edit these???

LOL Tony, I know how to generally change file names (that's what happens when I answer when I am getting sleepy)
I usually do a "save as" but in this case it let me rename the file but not the type cause its in a different column when opened with windows explorer...if that makes sense and there was no "save as" option...so I guess the better answer would have been I could change the file name but not the file type
Becky

McLean,
When I tried to capture it from the dvd a little box popped up after a few minutes and said audio not supported...

and I am using 7.0...I just got it 2 nights ago because everywhere I read it said it was the the best program for beginners (and I had the beginning part that came with my laptop). No it was not open in power director ( I copied the file directly to the hard drive and tried to open it from there) and I also tried to open it with with windows media...the only thing I could get it to open correctly with was Quickplay but I couldn't fast forward or anything it would just play that one section...

so what's next?

Tony, it won't let me change the file type (did I ever mention I HATE Vista?) so don't know what I need to do to be able to do that

seems like the ONLY way I can get these clips to actually play is in
QuickPlay (other than the first one of course which plays in anything I've tried although 2 others of the 5, as I mentioned, will play in movie maker)

i'm giving up for tonight but will be back tomorrow to see if anyone has come up with any other suggestions...I hate to give up on doing this, there are clips from this video that family and friends want to see...

Thanks ya'll
Becky

yes it was a typo in the original post sorry bout that...

I read through every linked post everyone gave me and it didn't really help because I didn't understand what a lot of it was talking about to be honest

ok I tried putting the messed up file in the master track, clicked produce and chose Mpeg2. It took about 15 or 16 minutes (the section is 26 minutes long more or less).

the end result was it appeared in the library after it was finished and when I clicked on it to play and it did the exact same thing although it seemed to have slowed down from super fast forward but with the audio still being almost a squeaky squeal (my dh said it sounded like a bunch of hyped up chipmunks)

so it seems to be the audio I am having the most problem with.

so if I convert it to a mpg2 then the audio will automatically convert too?

Thanks for all you all's patience
Becky

Remember i am a rookie here...
I don't know what all this means but what I don't understand is why they all basically say the same thing under properties but 1 works and 4 don't
(btw when I was playing around with them in Windows Movie Maker three would work there and 2 would not, BUT the two that wouldn't work there at least here I get video but its speeded up badly)

ok here's what it says about the files under properties

File
File path: E:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.VOB
File type: VOB
File size: 1023.85 MB
Created by: 2009/08/16 08:49 AM

Video
Type: MPEG-2
Original duration: 00:26:51:17
Bitrate: 5.13 Mbps
Resolution: 720x480
Frame rate: 29.97 fps
Aspect Ratio: 4:3

Audio
Type: MPEG
Sample rate: 44kHz
Bitrate: 96Kbps
Channel: Mono

so what does this all mean? are these VOB files or not?
Thanks
Becky

I am a brand new newbie so be patient.
Last night I tried importing 5 VOD video files off a dvd disc that was made for us. Only 1 of the files will play in the preview mode, the other 4 seem to be playing on fast forward with the sound simply squealing...instead of the talking that should be heard. Ironically it is the other 4 files that has the info I want to edit in them.
What am I doing wrong or what do I need to do? I have searched and can't find anything addressing this problem and would really appreciate someone being kind enough to walk me through what I am doing wrong.
Thanks in advance for your help
Becky