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How to Convert and Import DVD to After Effects
Topic Started: Jul 15 2014, 02:24 AM (49 Views)
jodietong1221

Summary: Look for a way to rip DVDs for After Effects editing to create your own masterpiece? Follow below guide to learn how to rip DVD files into MPEG for importing to After Effects.

As an ideal video editing tool, After Effects is widely used by video professionals on Mac&Windows. Users can import AVCHD/MOV/AVI/MPG into it for editing directly. However, the occasion you are usually facing is that DVDs, as source files are difficult to be loaded to After Effects for further editing. This article discusses the details on how to edit DVD into Premiere Pro without problem.

Users will get the message while trying to transfer DVD files into After Effects-"Unsupported format or damaged file." In fact, most video editing softwares do not support DVD importing including After Effects. Then how can we make DVD compatible with After Effects?

One solution supplied by some persons on forum is to put the DVD into your computer player, open the DVD in Explorer, copy the folder Video_TS to your computer. Open the folder and rename all the files with the extension VOB to MPG. After that, After Effects will accept them.

However, that way is only for non-protected DVDs. If you have some commercial DVDs, you may need another solution. This solution tested by a lot of users is much more powerful. Get a DVD to After Effects Converter and rip DVDs into MPEG format so that After Effects can support well.

Here Brorsoft DVD Ripper for Mac is highly recommended to you which should be a great helper. You can choose to rip one title or the entire DVD to MPEG-2 favored by After Effects on Mac (Mavericks included) with user-friendly interface and powerful capacity. Plus, you can also choose other output formats for playing or editing since this professional App offers many special format columns for users to set. Turn to Brorsoft DVD Ripper Windows version, if you are a PC user. Now download the program and start DVD to After Effects conversion.

Import DVD files into After Effects for further editing

Step 1. Insert your DVD Disc into DVD drive, click "Add" button to load the DVD movies you want to rip to the program. DVD folders are also supported.

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Step 2. Tap the Format box and select Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas --> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output format. It should be compatible with After Effects natively.

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Tip: Adjust video and audio parameters if you need, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., in "Settings".

Step 3. Finally, click "Convert" button to begin the DVD to MPEG-2 ripping.

After the conversion finished, you can get the videos ripped from DVD for After Effects editing. Now, enjoy your editing time.

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jodietong1221

Summary: Facing problems when importing VOB video files into Adobe After Effects for further editing? If so, follow the easy workaround here.

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Adobe After Effects with stunning features is popular video editing software for us. The point here, sometimes, you will find it's a painful experience when importing VOB into After Effects. And there are some frequently asked question quoted as below.

Q1: I had ad DVD. So far I have taken the video folder off the DVD and there is a .VOB file there. However I can’t seem to import these VOB to After Effects ... is there a lossless format which I could transcode the VOB file into?

Q2: I'm trying to get a DVD into After Effects. While, with a free DVD software, I've managed to get the .vob files, but now how do I get VOB files into After Effects without losing much quality?

To resolve the problem I’d searched further and widely in Google. As some guys suggest, you can try changing the file type from .vob to .mpg or .avi, depending on your PC sometimes this works. Well, if you want an effective and reliable way to import VOB to After Effects, get a VOB converter and transcode .vob files to MPEG-2, which will save you both time and trouble, and all you need is to drag the result videos for prompt editing.

Download and use Brorsoft Video Converter, which is able to resolve your trouble effortlessly. This video app can help you convert VOB into a different format (e.g. avi, .mpg) with least quality loss. You should then be able to import the new file into After Effects with smooth editing without any trouble. With it, you can also effortlessly transcode VOB to MPG for Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas, DNxHD for Avid MC, WMV for Windows Movie Maker, etc. If you're using a Mac, simply get the equivalent Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac to encode VOB to After Effects on Mac OS X(Mavericks 10.9).

How to Convert VOB to After Effects editable format

1. Download, install and run the VOB Converter; click "Add Videos" icon to load your source .vob videos.

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2. Click “Format” bar and choose "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as output format on the drop-down menu. Of course, you can also choose AVI, MP4 from “Common Video” as the output format.

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3. Click “Settings” button if you’d like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels.

4. Click the convert button under the preview window, the VOB to After Effects Converter will start encoding VOB for importing to After Effects. Soon after the conversion is finished, just click "Open" button to get the generated files for edit in After Effects CS4/CS5/CS6/CC perfectly.

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