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  Crash importing *some* mp4s from Lightroom 4

  Posted by Victor Laszlo on March 14, 2012 at 11:39 pm

  I can import a low-res mp4 generated by Lightroom, but MED, HIGH, and MAX files crash Vegas Platinum Studio HD 10.0 build 179. Those files play well enough on Win Media Player and other players. Am I doing something wrong? Do I need an upgrade?

  Thanx in advance – VL

  Matthew Allen replied 14 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Matthew Allen

  March 15, 2012 at 3:04 am

  Looks like the mp4 import support is highly flaky. Known good files crash it easily. I’ve down-graded my Quicktime version to 7.1.6 (which they suggest as the minimum, which is probably what the devs had at the time), and converted my .mp4 to .mov (without re-encoding via ffmpeg -i -vcodec copy -acodec copy ). Then tried to import that .mov file and bingo! It works. However it’s slow as hell. Seeking around the timeline is way slower than having say, PAL DV footage in the timeline.

  But slow is better than immediate crash, so I ran with it. Next time I’m going to keep the original DV footage around longer *smacks forehead*.

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