Multi Sound track problem when importing VOB file in MEP 17 Plus

nevilleswartz1980 wrote on 12/30/2012, 9:47 AM

Hi all...

I use MEP 17 Plus version 10.0.12.2.

If i try to import a VOB file into my project, and the VOB comes from a DVD that has more than one sound track, English, French and Spanish, then the file once on the timeline has no sound component below it. There is sound when you play back the file but it seems to me that all three the languages are being played at the same time.

I dont work with copyrighted DVDs at all. They have no copyright or copy protection at all.

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emmrecs wrote on 12/30/2012, 2:02 PM

I don't own and have never had MEP17+ but I think there must be a way to have the audio track(s) displayed separately from the video.  If so, do you see three audio tracks, one for each language?  Can you then mute the one(s) you don't want to hear?  But remembering that if you "cut" something from the video and/or one of the language tracks it is almost certain to affect the other languages.

Checking Program Settings in MX, under the Video/Audio tab>Arranger, do you have a tick in "Simple Audio Object"?  On that same tab, what about "Options>Allow user-defined names for sound extracted from VOBs"?

I have to admit to being intrigued by your statements about copyright.  Someone, somewhere automatically "owns" the copyright, even if he/she does not seek to claim or enforce that ownership.  I would have thought this is particularly so with DVDs that have multiligual sound tracks.

Jeff

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Scenestealer wrote on 1/2/2013, 11:47 PM

Hi Neville

Are you saying that that, once dragged to the timeline, the VOB only occupies Track 1?

Following on from what Jeff has suggested - if there is something occupying Track 2 - rt. click it and select "Extract Audio tracks" and see if 3 tracks appear.

Ss

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nevilleswartz1980 wrote on 1/3/2013, 1:03 AM

Hi Guys...

Thanks for the replys... The DVDs i work with are of religious material and they are produced to be distributed globally for free or for a donation to further the work... Yes the material belongs to someone, but that someone is happy if i distribute the material, because thats the purpose of producing it in the first place.

When i import the VOB, you get a video on track one, but no audio component on track two... This is on a clean project so there is nothing else.

I found that by right-clicking on the video, you have towards the top of the menu an option to choose your audio track, 1, 2 or 3. This solves the playback of multiple languages at the same time but still no sound onbject in the arranger. Hopes this clears things up...

Regards, Neville...