Shotcut is cropping inserted videos

[rosieee42]

I am currently making a compilation of old homemade videos. I am importing them to my PC from a DVD as .VOB files and dragging them into my timeline. Today I noticed that the videos are longer when I watch them in VLC player and when they are imported into my Shotcut project timeline, they are missing a significant portion of the video. I tried updating updating Shotcut (I am on the most recent version as far as I am aware) and also importing via the playlist rather than dragging in from File Explorer.

The ONLY thing I noticed, which could be unrelated, is that in File Explorer, one of the videos says it is 17 seconds long (00:00:17) but it is more like 17 minutes long. I have tried re-importing the .VOB file from the disc again too, but it didn’t fix it.

I really have no idea what is going on and I am a complete beginner so I would be very grateful for any help I can get! Thanks in advance

OS: Windows 10 Pro

Shotcut version: 25.01.25

[MusicalBox]

Hi @rosieee42

I quickly browsed these two topics and even if they don’t seem to bring a real solution, you should find useful informations about this problem

Importing DVD VOB files

I have a set of VOB file of my sisters wedding. When i load them up they only load the first 26 seconds. Do i have to do somehting to load the whole file or have these files not been catered for ?

.vob file import size limitation

I’ve been using SHOTCUT for some months now. I’m systematically converting my family video DVD’s to MP4 (H.264) but I have found I can’t import my (non macrovision protected) .vob files fully into SHOTCUT. I only get 15 minutes or so of a 29 minute file to load into SHOTCUT. I’m running the latest version as of September 2017. I have a solution but it’s not ideal as I lose definition. I use WINFF to convert the the .vob files to basic .MP4. It does the job quickly and renders it to a smaller fil…

[brian]

It’s been a number of years since I tried. But the last time I tried to edit VOB files, I had to use the “Convert…” option to get editable files.

[rosieee42]

Thanks everyone. I think this was a corrupted header on the video file, I converted it to mp4 and that tricked it into correcting the video length - so this was not a problem with Shotcut.