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February 11, 2017
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Problems capturing all media from mini dvds in Premiere Elements 12

  • February 11, 2017
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For the past month or so, I have been creating several projects in Première Elements 12 in order to transfer home videos from mini DVDs to larger DVDs.  I have created 10-15 projects from a total of 30-40 mini DVDs, and burned each project to a large DVD without any problems (other than some quality issues, which is a separate matter) until recently.

During my last two projects, I have noticed that not all of the video on some of the mini DVDs is being captured when I "Add Media".  For the first project, I did not have any issue with the first two mini DVDs, but then noticed that not all of the video on the third mini DVD was being captured.  After trying various fixes described below, I thought that it might be an issue with the project or the disc, so I deleted the project and video files, and started a new project with completely different mini DVDs.  Almost the exact same thing happened (no problem with the first two discs, problem with the third).  The project sizes aren't large, and contain only about 35-45 minutes of video each.

In each case, the following occurred (I followed the exact same procedures I have been using for the other projects over the past month without any issues):  I place the mini DVD in the computer's DVD drive and click "Add Media" from the computer's DVD drive.  In all of my past projects, three video files appear: The first "Video_TS.VOB" is the mini disc's main menu and I ignore this; the second "VTS_01_1.VOB" contains 15+ minutes of video; the third "VTS_01_2.VOB" contains the remaining video on the mini disc (usually 3-4 minutes).  In the last two projects, the third file shows 34 seconds and 7 seconds, even though they should show 3-4 minutes (I have confirmed that each mini disc contains 18-19 minutes of total video).  With the second project (but not the first), when I clicked Refresh, the third file showed 3 minutes and 37 seconds, but when I captured it to the Timeline only 7 seconds was transferred.  I have played both mini discs on the computer and in a separate DVD player and have confirmed that there are no issues with the discs and they both played the full videos.

I tried burning the mini discs to a separate large disc and using that to capture the video in PE12, but the same issue occurred.  I have also deleted the projects and video files from my hard drive and started from scratch, but the same thing happens with the new project.

Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?  Any help would be very much appreciated.

The following information may be helpful.  Please let me know if any additional information would help:

Première Elements 12 for Windows.

Camcorder - Sony Handyman DCR-DVD403.  I bought this around 2005 and it takes video on mini DVDs. 

Computer - Lenovo Ideapad 100-15IBD

Model Name:  80QQ

RAM:  8G

HDD:  1 TB

Built-in DVD RW

Runs Windows 10

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    Ann Bens
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    Ann BensCommunity Expert
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    February 13, 2017

    Copy entire disk to hard drive first then Add Media.

    See how that will work.

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    scottr1699Author
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    February 14, 2017

    I have not been able to get that to work.  Any suggestions for capturing the video through the PE program?

    Ann Bens
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    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 16, 2017

    Yes - I can upload the VTS_01_1.VOB, and a VTS_01_2.VOB still appears in the Add Media box, but it is much shorter than it should be.

    To clarify the issue, I am using mini discs that I have finalized in my camcorder.  When finalizing, it automatically creates various menu/scene links on the mini disc (the number varies, but usually there are five to twelve depending upon how many different recordings are on the mini disc).  If I put the mini disc in my computer drive or in a separate DVD player, those various menu/scene links appear.  When I Add Media in PE, those menu/scene links are what appear under Video_TS.VOB.  Because I don't need those (they don't contain video and I create my own menu markers when I create the DVD in PE), I ignore that file when adding captured media to the Timeline in PE.  [As an aside, I think the way the disc is finalized may affect how the mini disc is copied to my hard drive.  I've tried copying the mini discs to my hard drive, but the files appear in such a way that I can't seem to add them in PE.  That may be user error and I may not be copying them to my hard drive properly, but that is the primary reason I am trying to do this through PE rather than from my hard drive (plus, it has worked through PE numerous other times, so I think it should work with the current discs).]

    Regardless of how many menu/scene links are on the mini disc, I still typically get two additional "files" in the captured media box of PE (VTS_01_1.VOB and VTS_01_2.VOB).  The first contains 15+- minutes of video, and the second contains the remainder of the disc.  For some reason, on a couple of my recent projects, some of the discs are captured in full, and some contain much less video in the second/VTS_01_2.VOB file than should appear.  The first/VTS_01_1.VOB file still contains 15+-minutes and the second contains much less.


    Uploading means transferring files from computer to internet and v.v

    So i meant something like wetransfer or dropbox to test the file.

    Getting files into a program is called importing or ingesting.

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