Cineform codec missing

[Nick White]

OK. Thanks John. Sorry for the confusion. I guess I am on a steep learning curve right now and it’s _just_ starting to show light at the end of the tunnel, so I am a little excitable.

Nick
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[Nick White]

[Vernon Lancaster] “should have been clearer – goto
https://cineform.com/downloads
download and install a trial of the ‘gopro cineform stduio professional’
this version (at least for me) then enabled me to render using the cineform codec within vegas for the length of the trail – it will give you the chance to see if you think its worth keeping”

Hey yeah I will. Thanks.

Nick
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[Nick White]

[John Rofrano] “Just for the record… those are called “Render Templates”. In Movie Studio Platinum 12.0 the window even says: “Choose a render template from the list…”. I’m just pointing this out so that you use and understand the language that everyone else here is using.”

Yes but I am talking about an encoding method choice _within_ a template, once I have chosen it. It’s one of the choices in all the avi templates. I think I was correct in saying it’s not a template. I would let it go by, but what you said may lead to more misunderstanding (And certainly _I_ do not need that! :D), and I am trying to be pretty careful about how I call things

Nick
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[Nick White]

[John Rofrano] “What version of Movie Studio are you using? Maybe it did ship with CineForm?”

This happens in both V11 and V12. They both show the codec available, but neither allows it to work.

Nick
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[John Rofrano]

[Nick White] “Yes but I am talking about an encoding method choice _within_ a template, once I have chosen it. It’s one of the choices in all the avi templates. I think I was correct in saying it’s not a template.”

That’s correct and I did not realize that you were talking about the Video formats within a template. I’m glad you clarified that because let me explain what you are looking at. Movie Studio does NOT ship with CineForm. This is list is NOT what Movie Studio ships with. This list contains the codecs that are installed on YOUR Windows OS independent of Movie Studio. Some of them came with Movie Studio. Some of them came with Windows. Some of them were installed by you. There is no guarantee that all of them will work but most should.

This is why I asked you what “Template” in Movie Studio uses CineForm when you said that CineForm came with Movie Studio. If Sony did not make a “Template” then Sony did not ship it with Movie Studio. If you created a new template that uses CineForm then you need to have the version of CineForm that is compatible with your version of Movie Studio.

It seems that at some point you installed some product that installed CineForm and that’s how it got on your system and in that list. If the CFHD.dll’s are on your system, then it will probably work with an older version of Movie Studio but the newer versions of Movie Studio require an updated CineForm codec.

~jr

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[Nick White]

Thanks for coming back John.

I am really puzzled because as I said, this was a completely new machine. I had installed nothing but Vegas, Handbrake (which AFAIK emphatically does not use Cineform), and Corel’s Paint Shop Pro, which is for still images only.

So unless Windows has that free decode-only version of Cineform, I am flummoxed.

Nick
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[John Rofrano]

[Nick White] “I am really puzzled because as I said, this was a completely new machine. I had installed nothing but Vegas, Handbrake (which AFAIK emphatically does not use Cineform), and Corel’s Paint Shop Pro, which is for still images only.”

OK Nick, now I’m just as puzzled as you are! I installed Movie Studio Platinum 12.0 on a clean Windows 7 64-bit computer and the CineForm codec is indeed listed under the VFW Video Formats and it DOES NOT WORK!

Wow. You are correct. My apologies. This is broken. I would report the problem to Sony and see what they say. I don’t know how the CFHD.DLL got on your computer because it’s not on the one that I installed Movie Studio 12 on.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Damir Vrancic]

I’ve read somewhere that some newer versions of “GoPro Cineform Studio” (free) Cineform codec does not work properly in Sony Movie Studio. It happened to me as well when trying to export the footage with selected Cineform codec (the same error appeared as stated above), so I uninstalled newer GoPro Studio version and installed version 1.1.2.100. After that export for Sony MS worked OK. Now I can also encode with Cineform in Sony MS.

Free Cineform and some other codecs did not appear on my Sony Vegas Pro 12. Somewhere I read (some years ago) that you should copy the file “aviplug.dll” from Movie Studio directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\aviplug

into Pro Vegas directory

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 12.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\aviplug

(before I renamed the original file in Pro directory into “aviplug.dll.orig”, just in case).

Now I can see xvid, Cineform and some other codecs in Vegas Pro version.

Damir

[Jonathan Lopez]

Ok, I have lastest vegas 13 and a gopro with the new GOpro Studio, but still having problems.

There is a better way to convert Gopro files to editable files for vegas?

Thanks

[Wayne Waag]

I use a GoPro Hero4 Black with Vegas Pro 13. I just import 2.7K or even 4K files directly to the timeline –no need to transcode to Cineform. This is by far the best approach, unless your system is not sufficiently robust. You’ll need to provide your system specs for someone to answer.

wwaag