Major problems editing footage recorded by new brand of electronics

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Major problems editing footage recorded by new brand of electronics

Posted by Jack Mcgee on April 25, 2011 at 8:15 am

Hi there,
Appreciate your help with a problem thats been plagueing me everytime I buy new electronic recording equipment. I have recently purchased a Creative Vado mini HiDef camcorder (ntsc – 720p recordings). These things always come with basic DVD conversion software – which in this case does not work very well in Win7. My aim is…as always…to edit the footage in vegas the way I want. Then use DVD Architect to create a DVD or BluRay.

Its always the same problem as normal. The camcorder records the footage in MP4 files H.264/MPEG-a- AVC files. These files are very unstable in vegas to edit (open about 15 of them and it crashes):

1) I cannot work out which format to convert these files into so I can import them to vegas with no quality loss for editing

2)AND which program will let me do this conversion with minimal hassle.

I installed the Lagarith codec which from what I read is the answer. However when open my conversion programs that I have:

– ImTOO Video Converter Ultimate 6
– iSkysoft iMedia Converter
– and a few others

On chooseing the option to convert to AVI – none of them have the Lagarith codec listed under their options.

I installed VirtualDub – however that does not recognise the original camcorder MP4 file so I cannot use that.

Is there some program out there with the correct format which lets me select all my Camcorder footage and lets me leave it running to automatically reconvert the original footage into some thing that has no quality loss and I an edit in Vegas Pro.

Grateful for any help you can give
McGee

Jack Mcgee replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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John Rofrano
April 26, 2011 at 4:46 am

[Jack McGee] “Appreciate your help with a problem thats been plagueing me everytime I buy new electronic recording equipment”

First you should stop buying cameras that shoot footage that you can’t edit. That will save you a lot of headaches. Cameras like the Kodak Zi8 shoot HD for $99 and edit smoothly in Vegas.

Try converting your footage to Motion-JPEG video with PCM audio using AviDemux 2.5. Here are the settings:

~jr

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Jack Mcgee
April 26, 2011 at 11:32 pm

Hi John,

I really appreciate your help with this, thankyou. AviDemux worked a treat just like you said…however I had one little issue…

I want to do batch conversions (since these mini cams make so many little files). I followed the article about scripting this and I got:
—
set avidemux=”C:\Program Files\Avidemux 2.5\avidemux2.exe”
set videocodec=M-JPEG
set audiocodec=PCM
for %%f in (*.mp4) do %avidemux% –video-codec %videocodec% –audio-codec %audiocodec% –force-alt-h264 –load “%%f” –save “%%f.avi” –quit
—

However, for some reason the script does not understand “M-JPEG”. Is there some other special word/name for this to get the script to use the M-JPEG codec?

Thankyou again for your help – you really have put me onto the right path.
J.

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