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  Vegas Movie Studio 8 won’t play .avi files?

  Posted by Carol Johnson on July 16, 2008 at 11:36 pm

  I currently have Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8. When I try and put an .avi file on the timeline it only gives me audio, but no visual. However I can open these same files on Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker and both audio and visual work just fine. I was told to download the DivX codec but it didn’t do anything. So how can I get Vegas to show both the audio and visual?

  Mike Kujbida replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Laszlo Kovacs

  July 17, 2008 at 4:08 am

  Hi,

  I could say downloading is not enough, you have to install as well…
  :))) Just kidding, sorry. ;))
  My experience was that Vegas “does not like” divx encoded videos, however I had problems mostly with the audio part in the past.
  To overcome this, google for Virtualdub, it’s a free software, especially for divx dudes.
  It is simple and self-explanatory.
  It can convert these divx and other filetypes, which are not really supported by Vegas.
  So download this software, and convert your avi to another type; I’d recommend a not so highly compressed mjpeg and uncompressed audio.

  Hope I could help.

  Regards

  K.L.
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  Carol Johnson

  July 17, 2008 at 5:24 am

  I can’t figure out how to convert the files.
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  Mike Kujbida

  July 17, 2008 at 1:04 pm

  Carol, where did the problem AVI originally come from?
  To find out what kind iof codec is required, you need to download a utility called GSpot Codec Information Appliance.
  Run it and tell us what it says.
  There’s a link to a quick start guide for it on this page.

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