I have Movie Edit Pro 15.
I am using a Magnavox VHS-DVD copy machine I recently purchased to convert a bunch of VHS-C tapes to DVD using this machine. Most of the VHS-C tapes are only about 20 minutes full, so 2 or 3 VHS-C tapes them fit onto 1 DVD, each listed as a separate movie in the root menu of the DVD. The Magnavox machine automatically creates a root menu for each recorded movie.
These DVDs play back just fine using every DVD player I've tried them on. They also play back just fine using Windows Media Player, as well as other Windows DVD players. When the DVD is started during playback, the root menu comes up and I can select which movie I want to view. All this works fine, the DVDs appear just fine themselves.
Now, here is my first problem: When I use MEP15 to import movies from these recorded DVD discs, the first problem encountered is that when I select the VTS_01_1.VOB file, it asks if I want to "Copy entire disc" or "Copy movie" ... HOWEVER, it doesn't allow me to select "WHICH" movie on the DVD I want to copy. Sometimes I only want the 2nd or 3rd or 4th movie loaded into MEP15 for editing, etc. Yet when I click on "Copy movie", it copies the entire disc to my hard drive, and it doesn't even bring up a menu asking which movie on the DVD I want to load. Using Roxio Video Wave instead of MEP15 brings up a menu listing all the movies on the disc when I use that software to import movies from a DVD, but MEP15 seems oblivious to the fact that there may be multiple movies on the DVD. How do I load other than the first movie on a DVD?
And now here is my second problem: When I select the "Copy entire disc", MEP15 imports the whole DVD and copies it to the hard drive, as expected, and it loads into MEP15 without error .. but this is where things get #$%@ed up. The first movie that was on the DVD plays back just fine in MEP15, but as it plays each subsequent movie after the first, it begins to suffer from unsyncronized video/audio. The audio lags "behind" the video, and it gets worse as each subsequent movie (that was imported via "Copy entire disc") begins to play.
So, what's the deal here? One would think that by the time a software application gets to version 15 most of the bugs should have been worked out, right? So, what am "I" doing wrong? Or, is it you folks and your software? Everything works fine using Roxio Video Wave, but that programs isn't much of a video editing program, it has few features. I'd rather use MEP15, if it worked as advertised .. and if it didn't HANG 3 or 4 times a day.
This is frustrating, because I spent a whole day importing and writing about 6 DVD discs filled with MPG files created using MEP15 only to discover none of them were any good because the sound is totally out of sync towards the end of the video.
If I'm doing something wrong, shame on me, but if this is your fault, I think you folks owe me a box of DVDs and 8 hours of my life.
??? What's the deal here? Why can't I import only the 2nd or 3rd movie from the DVD. And, when I try to import the entire disc instead, why is the sound out of sync on every movie after the first movie imported from the DVD?
BTW, this is not an issue with the Magnavox created discs, I tried to do the same using a multi-movie DVD I recorded with my Panasonic DVD camcorder and had the same sync problem. And, FYI, the DVD discs have been "finalized" in each machine before attempting to import into MEP15.
Any assistance would be appreciated, as the credibility of this software is seriously at stake here. Oh, and I downloaded the latest updates, and everything is still #$%@ up in MEP. This software does not work as advertised and I am seriously considering returning it and warning others so they can avoid this problem. You would think a DVD movie editing program should be capable of at least properly loading a DVD movie for editing. What's the deal here?
Help. ???
Mike
p.s. OS=Vista, on DUO proc .. and, MEP15 hangs the entire computer from time to time too, to the point where CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work, and so I have to pull the power cord to reboot. MEP15 seems to act more like a computer virus sometimes than a movie editing program. ???
Added: Also, creating a new keyframe table and reloading the first VOB is of no help either, the results are the same.
I am using a Magnavox VHS-DVD copy machine I recently purchased to convert a bunch of VHS-C tapes to DVD using this machine. Most of the VHS-C tapes are only about 20 minutes full, so 2 or 3 VHS-C tapes them fit onto 1 DVD, each listed as a separate movie in the root menu of the DVD. The Magnavox machine automatically creates a root menu for each recorded movie.
These DVDs play back just fine using every DVD player I've tried them on. They also play back just fine using Windows Media Player, as well as other Windows DVD players. When the DVD is started during playback, the root menu comes up and I can select which movie I want to view. All this works fine, the DVDs appear just fine themselves.
Now, here is my first problem: When I use MEP15 to import movies from these recorded DVD discs, the first problem encountered is that when I select the VTS_01_1.VOB file, it asks if I want to "Copy entire disc" or "Copy movie" ... HOWEVER, it doesn't allow me to select "WHICH" movie on the DVD I want to copy. Sometimes I only want the 2nd or 3rd or 4th movie loaded into MEP15 for editing, etc. Yet when I click on "Copy movie", it copies the entire disc to my hard drive, and it doesn't even bring up a menu asking which movie on the DVD I want to load. Using Roxio Video Wave instead of MEP15 brings up a menu listing all the movies on the disc when I use that software to import movies from a DVD, but MEP15 seems oblivious to the fact that there may be multiple movies on the DVD. How do I load other than the first movie on a DVD?
And now here is my second problem: When I select the "Copy entire disc", MEP15 imports the whole DVD and copies it to the hard drive, as expected, and it loads into MEP15 without error .. but this is where things get #$%@ed up. The first movie that was on the DVD plays back just fine in MEP15, but as it plays each subsequent movie after the first, it begins to suffer from unsyncronized video/audio. The audio lags "behind" the video, and it gets worse as each subsequent movie (that was imported via "Copy entire disc") begins to play.
So, what's the deal here? One would think that by the time a software application gets to version 15 most of the bugs should have been worked out, right? So, what am "I" doing wrong? Or, is it you folks and your software? Everything works fine using Roxio Video Wave, but that programs isn't much of a video editing program, it has few features. I'd rather use MEP15, if it worked as advertised .. and if it didn't HANG 3 or 4 times a day.
This is frustrating, because I spent a whole day importing and writing about 6 DVD discs filled with MPG files created using MEP15 only to discover none of them were any good because the sound is totally out of sync towards the end of the video.
If I'm doing something wrong, shame on me, but if this is your fault, I think you folks owe me a box of DVDs and 8 hours of my life.
??? What's the deal here? Why can't I import only the 2nd or 3rd movie from the DVD. And, when I try to import the entire disc instead, why is the sound out of sync on every movie after the first movie imported from the DVD?
BTW, this is not an issue with the Magnavox created discs, I tried to do the same using a multi-movie DVD I recorded with my Panasonic DVD camcorder and had the same sync problem. And, FYI, the DVD discs have been "finalized" in each machine before attempting to import into MEP15.
Any assistance would be appreciated, as the credibility of this software is seriously at stake here. Oh, and I downloaded the latest updates, and everything is still #$%@ up in MEP. This software does not work as advertised and I am seriously considering returning it and warning others so they can avoid this problem. You would think a DVD movie editing program should be capable of at least properly loading a DVD movie for editing. What's the deal here?
Help. ???
Mike
p.s. OS=Vista, on DUO proc .. and, MEP15 hangs the entire computer from time to time too, to the point where CTRL-ALT-DEL does not work, and so I have to pull the power cord to reboot. MEP15 seems to act more like a computer virus sometimes than a movie editing program. ???
Added: Also, creating a new keyframe table and reloading the first VOB is of no help either, the results are the same.