VOB and MPG are actually the same thing, it's just that the name of the container file is different. Most programs don't read VOB, but if we rename it as an MPG then we can trick it into reading the contents. It's the same story with a demuxed M2V file, and unfortunately, that means that demuxing is not a way to escape After Effects' wrath. I'm gonna have to go over there to render the file anyway, since my laptop would fry trying to do it.

I really don't get this. If I make a small clip of the file, depending on what part of the film it's from, After Effects might except it. For other parts of the film though, I get the same problems, and if I try to import the whole film then the whole thing looks pukey. I can't figure out what variable is causing this to muck up, which is very frustrating. Maybe I should try doing this on one of the computers at school tomorrow.

Oh, and before someone jumps in and says "Convert it to DV!", I'll get it out of the way right now that I don't want to use DV because there's no way to export a DV file at 23.98 FPS using MPEG streamclip. My only option is 29.97 FPS, which would cause me all kinds of problems.