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Help Needed – Canopus AVIs & Vegas
I’m quickly losing my mind here.
I have AVI 5 files, edited on a Canopus Rex system (not by me!!), that I need to make into a DVD using DVDA 3.0
I rendered them out from Vegas (6.0c) as mpegs & ac3s but, when I brought them into DVDA (3.0c) , it said every file had to be re-compressed. When I did this, lip sync was off as well as what appears to be a field ordr problem.
The files are only 9 min. max. each.
I’ve done this numerous times before and NEVER had to go through this before.
Is this a Canopus (type 1 vs. type 2) AVI file issue? I’ve got the Canopus DV file converter but have never used it so I’m not sure which settings to choose.
Any help is gratefully appreciated.Mike
edit: I did a test render using AVI files I created in Vegas so I know this works. It’s the Canopus AVIs that are giving me grief 🙁
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6 Replies
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Mike,
I’ve always used the file converter or rendered the Canopus files (old Raptor in my case)to a Vegas avi to remove the Canopus “wrapper”.
Once it’s an avi, rendering the MPEG in Vegas and importing that into DVDA works fine.
I think the settings in the Canopus file converter are Microsoft avi (not sure).
Hope this helps.
Ken -
In case anyone else runs into the same issue, I ended up using the Canopus DV File Converter and converted the Canopus AVI files to Microsoft DV (AVI 2) files. Brought them back into Vegas, rendered out to MPEG-2 & AC3, back into DVDA (where they had to recompressed) and made my DVD.
Mike
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Forgot to say thanks to Ken as his suggestion was the solution.
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[Mike Kujbida] “back into DVDA (where they had to recompressed)”
I don’t understand why your MPEG2 files are having to be recompressed. If they are small enough to fit on the DVD and are standard MPEG2, this should not happen.
Edward Troxel
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I don’t understand why your MPEG2 files are having to be recompressed.
I agree with you Edward. It was extremely frustrating (not to mention time-consuming) to have to go through this process all over again 🙂
Until I have some time to further research this, I’m going to write it off to a combination of the Canopus & Microsoft AVI codecs.Mike
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As long as the MPEG2 files are DVD compliant and small enough, I can’t see how the source file would have anything to do with it. There HAS to be something else going on other than the source files. Whatever the case, you do NOT want MPEG2 recompressed to MPEG2 because of the quality hit you will get.
Edward Troxel
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