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  XViD .avi in Vegas?

  Posted by Robbie Gould on September 21, 2007 at 5:58 am

  My newest problem is quite similar to the below-poster’s….

  I am making a montage for personal use using some scenes from movies. I ripped a scene from a DVD with DVDecrypt, then used AutoGK to turn it into an .avi. So far so good, it plays in Windows Media Player and Creative MediaSource Player.

  However, when I put it into Vegas, I get just the sound, no moving picture?

  Do I need some kind of new Codec?

  Gould

  Laszlo Kovacs replied 18 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Robbie Gould

  September 21, 2007 at 6:04 am

  Also, AutoGK uses VirtualDub to do the conversion.

  I seem to remember something about VirtualDub files not working right in Vegas… am I imagining this?

  More importantly, is there a fix for it?

  Gould
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  Laszlo Kovacs

  September 21, 2007 at 9:08 am

  Hi,
  Virtualdub handles almost any avi if you have a codec for it.
  Vegas needs additional conditions for being able to handle that codec. (Based on Edward Troxel’s answer I asked here sometime long before: why I colud not open a file when I had the codec for it – I guess it was about quicktime- or realalternative).

  So, if you have ripped the scene, convert it to an avi that vegas can handle. I’d prefer mjpeg, but if your scene is short (or you have plenty of drive space) you could use uncompressed avi – that codec is really free :)))

  Then after the conversion open the file in Vegas, and edit.

  Hope I could help.

  By(t)e

  K.L.
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  Robbie Gould

  September 23, 2007 at 8:00 pm

  Laslo, thanks for your response. I’m still not sure how to handle this though. What program should I use to convert the AVI?

  I have tried putting it into VirtualDub and then saving it again as an .avi. That ALMOST worked… I can get the file into Vegas and it seems to work, even goes onto the timeline. But when I try to play the file it often freezes or even crashes the program.

  Clearly Vegas does not like this file.

  What program should I use to change this file to an MJPEG or even uncompressed .avi?

  Gould
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  Laszlo Kovacs

  September 24, 2007 at 2:43 am

  Hi,

  [R Gould] ” What program should I use to convert the AVI?”

  Virtualdub. 🙂

  Both audio and video menu have these option independently:
  “direct stream copy” “full processing” “compression”.

  Set both to “full proc”, and select “compression” – the codec.

  For audio I recommend “uncompressed”.
  For video is mjpeg OK.

  Then “file”/”save as avi” and wait 😉

  I can recommend Morgan multimedia mjpeg,
  I have the version 3 for years now.
  Probably there are updates for it, but I’m completely satisfied with it.
  It had an extra long trial period, not sure but it was over 2 months or so.
  Look for it, or use uncompressed – huge output file, but the chepaest codec!!!
  😉

  Hope I could help.

  By(t)e

  K.L.

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