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Canon AVI & Vegas Compatibility
Hi,
This is probably an old question, but it has to do with the video captured by Canon still Digicams, such as my 3-year old Canon A620 point-and-shoot. It is “AVI” and it appears to be a series of JPG photos – with sound, incompatible with Vegas. To use the results, I run these AVIs through Windows Movie Maker and translate them into .wmv files, but this is very time-consuming, and WMM is old and inefficient.
Q1: Are there simpler ways to convert the Canon AVIs into something that Vegas can use – with minimal loss in quality?
Q2: Are there perhaps other editing software, besides Vegas, which can accept these AVIs directly? If so, which?
Q3: Canon has just announced two new superzoom cams:”SX1 IS” and “SX10 IS”, with the specs for video being “Movie: AVI (Motion JPEG compression)”. Is anyone familiar with this format?
Thank you,
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4 Replies
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Ahead Software’s Nero(ver.7 and 8)include NeroVision, a very basic NLE app. If Vision lets you import these files, try playing and then exporting them to one of its formats.I recently used it to transcode some 1920 x 1080i HD clips, from a new Casio DSLR no less, to something that Vegas 8 could deal with.
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Thank you, John.
My version of Nero seems to have a defective NeroVision, but I discovered an old CD which came with a camera. It is ULEAD 7 SE (which I guess is a limited version of ULEAD) and I tried it. Its best two compatible outputs are “NTSC DV” and “NTSC .MPEG2” format. Which is likely to be “best” for use in Vegas?John23GR
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I would use the DV format first. Good luck!
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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John, I have been editing SX10 video with Sony Vegas 7e. Just drop it on the timeline with no problem. Have also tested some SX1 files. No problem.
The SX1 and SX10 video files are h.264 files in an MOV conatiner. That is different than their previous AVI files which were MJPEG.
Rich
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