No AVI files working

[Chelsea Volz]

Hey John. I am sorry to bug you again, but I have finally finished converting all of my media to the codec you suggested. I could only convert the video codec to MJPEG because PCM wouldn’t read on Sony Vegas so I just used MP3 for all of my files.
Now, I was working on a project earlier and everything was working really well and I didn’t really have any issues.
Then I started working on a separate project and I went to render it to see how it was turning out and it wouldn’t render. The Estimated Time Remaining kept decreasing while the Elapsed Time kept increasing. When I would try to cancel the render, the entire program would freeze until I had to end it via the task manager.

Do you have any clue what the problem could be?

[John Rofrano]

[Chelsea Volz] ” Is there something I should download in order to make the PCM codec work?”

PCM is the native format for windows audio. There is no codec. Every Windows computer back to Windows 3.1 (and probably earlier) can play PCM audio. I’m not sure why that wouldn’t work.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[John Rofrano]

[Chelsea Volz] ” I could only convert the video codec to MJPEG because PCM wouldn’t read on Sony Vegas so I just used MP3 for all of my files.”

Vegas is not expecting MP3 in an AVI container. I can’t imagine why PCM would not work. Would AviDemux not render PCM or Vegas wouldn’t read it?

[Chelsea Volz] “Then I started working on a separate project and I went to render it to see how it was turning out and it wouldn’t render. The Estimated Time Remaining kept decreasing while the Elapsed Time kept increasing.”

Did your first project render? This could be unrelated and specific to this new project. What other media is in the new project? Did you use any 3rd party FX?

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Chelsea Volz]

Vegas wouldn’t read it.

And all of the media in the project has gone through AVIDemnux. I am not using any third party FX. In fact, I’ve only used crossfades.

Would you happen to know what the original save template is for Sony AVC. Like, when you go to render something and you select Sony AVC and then the template is automatically seleted for you? I accidentally changed the template and now that’s what it goes to everytime I want to render something but it’s not correct and I can’t remember what it was originally.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks for everything.

[John Rofrano]

I just want you to know that I haven’t forgotten about downloading this file. It’s just that my broadband is not working properly and I have a very slow Internet connection until I can get someone out here to fix it. (sorry)

Once it’s fixed I’ll download the file and test it out.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[John Rofrano]

[Chelsea Volz] “Would you happen to know what the original save template is for Sony AVC. Like, when you go to render something and you select Sony AVC and then the template is automatically seleted for you?”

It’s never the same template. What Vegas does is look at your project properties and recommends templates that are the closest. If you tell me the name of the template you are talking about, I can post screen shots of my settings.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Chelsea Volz]

Oh, no. I’ve gotten AviDemux to work. Turns out I just wasn’t saving the files correctly. The only thing I couldn’t get to work was the PCM audio codec. AviDemux converts it fine, but Sony Vegas won’t read the audio portion of the clip if that’s the codec I select, so I’ve just been using MJPEG as the video codec and MP3 as the audio codec.