Rendering to .avi: audio only to PCM

[John Rofrano]

[Bartosz Michno] “I use Windows 7 Ultimate x64, Sony Vegas 9.0c and K-lite Mega codec pack.”

Well… I don’t know if the K-lite Mega codec pack is causing problems, but Vegas Pro 9 should be able to render AVI with MP3 simply by pressing the Custom… button, going to the Audio tab and selecting MPEG Layer-3.

I would never install a “codec pack” on a video editing PC. It has been know to cause irreversible damage. (and by “irreversible” i mean that uninstalling doesn’t fix it and you have to format your hard drive and re-install Windows!) Never install a codec-pack.

~jr

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[Bartosz Michno]

Damn it…
Thanks, I’ll bear your words in mind. I still hope I’ll find a solution to my problem.

[Bartosz Michno]

Damn it…
Thanks, I’ll bear your words in mind . I still hope I’ll find a solution to my problem.

[John Rofrano]

You may be restricted by the template you have chosen. Select the template: Default Template (uncompressed), press the Custom… button and on the Audio tab you should see more choices like this:

~jr

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[Bartosz Michno]

Here is what I get:

[John Rofrano]

You should have a long list of attributes under MPEG Layer 3 (at least I do). I’m guessing that the K-Lite codec pack replaced the MP3 encoder that you paid good money to Sony for, with a free cheap one that doesn’t work with Vegas. This is why you never install codec packs. It overlays the good codecs that you paid money for and sometimes they aren’t compatible with Vegas.

I would try uninstalling Vegas, uninstall the codec pack, then re-install Vegas.

~jr

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[Bartosz Michno]

I did it, but nothing changed.
I have no choice, I need to format my system partition. Damage has been done.

Thank you for your support.

And let the all codec packs die…

[John Rofrano]

Sorry to hear that. It’s a hard lesson to learn. Only every install the just codecs that you need for your videos and nothing more.

~jr

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[Paul James chatman]

[quote]
I would never install a “codec pack” on a video editing PC. It has been know to cause irreversible damage. (and by “irreversible” i mean that uninstalling doesn’t fix it and you have to format your hard drive and re-install Windows!) Never install a codec-pack.
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This wouldn’t apply to DivX, would it? I’ve never heard of DivX considered such? XviD, yes! But, I always thought DivX was a genuine AVI decoder/encoder. Was I wrong?

hello

[Matt Crowley]

The MP3 encoder that you get as part of the WAV format settings is built into Windows and (at least for XP) only allows bitrates up to 56kbps (ie not good at all). This will create MP3 data in a WAV file container.

In Movie Studio HD 10, I have a proper “MP3 Audio” option as one of the render formats. This is Sony’s MP3 encoder and has all the usual options (CBR/VBR, all bitrates, ID3 tags etc). Maybe this encoder doesn’t feature in Pro/earlier versions??