Can’t Open Some Video Files in Vegas 10

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Can’t Open Some Video Files in Vegas 10

Posted by Dave Petteruto on March 7, 2013 at 12:24 am

Hello,
I was supplied several video files by the local high school wrestling team. When I try to open them in Vegas using the “Import Media” method I get an error that says “An error occurred when opening one or more files” “An error occurred while opening a codec”. Under Details it says “AVI could not be opened” If I try to drag and drop the clip on the timeline the error says “None of the files dropped on Vegas pro could be opened”. When I right click on the clip, it says it’s a “Video clip (AVI)”, under properties it says it’s a 1920 x 1080 29 frames/second. I’m assuming this must be a codec issue? Any suggestions as to how I get these files into Vegas?

Thanks
Dave P.

Intel I7 950, 12GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE, Vegas Pro 10 (32bit/64bit), Windows 7 Pro 64bit, LG WH10LS30 10X Bluray Burner.

Stephen Mann replied 13 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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Stephen Mann
March 7, 2013 at 4:10 am

Get Mediainfo to find out what the AVI container contains. You can put any kind of video into an AVI container, so you need to know what codec was used to record it.

DO NOT install a Codec Pack – those are for gamers, for playback of strange codecs, and will replace your really good codecs installed by Vegas with really inferior ones.

I would predict that Mediainfo will reveal that you are looking for the DivX or Xvid codec because Vegas works with just about anything else that you usually find in an AVI file.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Paul Beller
March 7, 2013 at 9:55 am

I don’t have a need for that but I can import xvid and divx videos into vegas without a glitch.i have xvid – free codec installed.
Dave Petteruto
March 7, 2013 at 11:10 pm

Thanks for the info Stephen. Here is a screenshot of what Mediafinder came up with. Is it telling me that it’s “CABAC”? Any suggestions?

Thanks
Dave P.

Intel I7 950, 12GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE, Vegas Pro 10 (32bit/64bit), Windows 7 Pro 64bit, LG WH10LS30 10X Bluray Burner.
Stephen Mann
March 8, 2013 at 5:49 am

That is strange. But, as I said, you can put any format into an AVI container, and someone did. CABAC is Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding. It is used in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video encoding.

What camera was it shot on?

Just for grins – I’ve seen stranger things, try making a copy of the AVI file and rename it to MP4.

You might also try MPEG Streamclip to transcode it.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

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