Alright - I've been agonizing over this and have no idea how to figure out what is wrong. I have .vobs and .mpgs that I want to edit in Adobe Premier to create a video montage. Problem is - Premiere doesn't seem to like either one of these formats. It won't read the .vobs and the .mpgs (mpeg2) have the video playing too fast for the audio. So, after much digging over the past couple of days - it seemed that .avi should be the format of choice. So, I set about converting test file .vobs and .mpgs to .avi. Easy, right? Here's where the problem I am running into. The encoding seems to work fine, as far as I can tell. I've use trial versions of Xilisoft DVD Ripper, Xilisoft Video Converter, XMPEG, and Ulead VideoStudio 9 and tried different methods. I've tried ripping the .avi directly from the DVD. I've tried putting the .vob onto the hard drive and then converting to .avi. I've tried converting the .vob to .mpg to .avi - all results are the same: when I import the clip into Premier everything goes well. I can see the clip, view it, and set my in and out points. But when I move it to the timeline, I get audio but no video and it's driving me crazy. I've downloaded various .avi files off the internet and misc .avi files I've got on my computer (and have nothing to do with this particular project) and I am running into the same black/blank screen for video though the audio seems to be running fine. I've logged 11 hours now with the encoding/ripping experiments and am at my wit's end. Any ideas as to why this is happening is most welcome. Thanks in advance - EDIT: 2x for coherency - and still not convinced I am making sense.
you are going to probably find that unless all your files are uniform, meaning they are all mpeg2 files with the same aspect properties .All pal or ntsc, same type etc your program you are using will find it hard to assimilate the differences and thats why you cant progress with your project
