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Problem With MPEG Clips
I have several MPG clips I want to combine and author in Vegas DVDA 5.0B. GSpot tells me they are MPEG1 clips and that I have the proper codec for the file installed on my equipment. They play OK with WMP and Nero Player. I would like to edit the clips, but realizing the resulting quality may be poor, I’ll settle for creating some titles and transitions between clips. The uncompressed clips are flash files and likely are not available.
When the .MPG file is dropped onto the Vegas 7.0E or Vegas 9.0C timeline, the video track exists but is blank. The audio track appears to be OK and plays fine. When the .MPEG file is opened in DVDA 5.0B the clips say “Render Failure” with little “no” symbols in the four corners of the clip. When preview is turned on in DVDA the audio plays fine but with a blank video screen.
The MPEG clips I want to stick in Vegas are most likely from a Flash source. Vegas 7 reports them as: 425x319x32, 24.000 fps progressive, 00:00:59:09, MPEG-1. I tried using the file specs as a custom template but the results are the same … audio is fine with a blank video track.
So Vegas recognizes the video stream but I can’t figure out how to get Vegas to display the video in the timeline.
What can I do to correct this?
Jake
George Hinkle -
2 Replies
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Very strange indeed. Vegas is a very use-friendly program with almost any format. A couple thoughts…
1) Do you have any of those all-in-one codec packs installed? I had some MAJOR issues when I had installed both K Lite codec pack and CCCP. It had some very strange results, and it changed the way the entire computer handled my media assets. I had to eventually reformat to get it back to working condition.
2) Do you know how the flash files were encoded/what program was used to transcode them? I’ve seen some lower-quality programs not encode properly or add inaccurate information into the wrapper headers. I am not a compression expert, but if Vegas is seeing a file, and placing something of that duration into the timeline, it seems to be reading something from the file header correctly, but possibly the compression method was other than the header displays.
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1) Do you have any of those all-in-one codec packs installed? I had some MAJOR issues when I had installed both K Lite codec pack and CCCP. It had some very strange results, and it changed the way the entire computer handled my media assets. I had to eventually reformat to get it back to working condition.
No, I have not installed either of these two codecs, and by inspection they don’t appear to have been installed “under the radar”.
2) Do you know how the flash files were encoded/what program was used to transcode them?
No. The file was created at https://www.elfyourself.com/ . I have contacted the support team but I know they will tell me that the file they sent me does everthing they promised so its my problem, not thier’s.
I converted the file to .WMV format using AVS Video Converter. Vegas WILL play ball with the .WMV file, but I would really like to resolve this .MPG issue within Vegas.
Jake
George Hinkle
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