Some videos can’t be imported to Sony Vegas Pro 13 when I could formerly

[Russ Froze]

Soo.. Can the evil videos be opened in Quicktime? Or Win Media Player? Is there a copy of Gspot available to see which codecs are used to read file?
Russ

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi Dhanen

3rd party codecs packs are notorious for creating havoc with NLE software. Uninstall and make sure that there are no remnants of those packs. If you must have them, install them on another computer

As Russ mentioned, can you play those clips with a ”regular” player ?

MediaInfo on your file(s) would help.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/

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[Dhanen Moteuchi]

Hi, thanks both to the reply. Yes, of course I can open that videos on other players, I have no problems opening them in any player (Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player…), in fact, as I said, I used them before in Sony Vegas and I hadn’t any problem using them. I hadn’t problems in the past neither using them and I had installed k-lite codec pack. Is there a particular codec I must uninstall?
I readed on other threads when I searched my problem that a possible solution was installing k-lite codec pack, but I already had it installed so that didn’t solved my problem ’cause was the first thing I thought that could be the problem (I already had the problem before installing it).
Thanks again, and sorry for my english.

[Dhanen Moteuchi]

I forgot asking, how I must share the Gspot so you’ll see the codecs used on the file.

[Russ Froze]

Just post a screenshot of GSpot and is quicktime installed on the machine. Vegas uses Quicktime to access .mov files but Vegas does not use Windows media player. Also Third Party codec pack seem to rely heavily on ffmpeg and may replace the sony versions of the codec which was licensed and modified for use in Vegas. It is generally considered best practice to use the codecs provided and installed by the NLE editors authors.
Russ

[Dhanen Moteuchi]

I made an screenshot, on the right you can see I installed QT last month, as first try to solve the issue. On the left is a GSpot scan of one of the files that SV doesn’t opens, telling “none of the files couldn’t be opened” if I drag it, and “undetermined error” if I import it (it’s something like that, don’t know the exact error in english due my SV it’s in spanish). It’s weird ’cause I could do it in the past, before I reinstalled whole Windows 10. I had k-lite codec pack installed when I could. Maybe I should install another codecs for those files? Thanks a lot again.

PS: Note that the date it’s in spanish format dd/mm/yyyy, obvious ’cause there is not a 16th month, lol. Just sayin’

[Russ Froze]

Ok lets try VLC.
Open a video that will not open in Vegas. In VLC under tools menu look for Codec information. This will give the codecs used to open the file. The same can be done with quicktime. By the way do you have Quicktime Pro installed? If you do, then Quicktime can be used to frame serve to Vegas.

So once you know the codec used to open the files then comes the hard part of finding out if the codec is available for Vegas to use. Obviously the Codec is available on the machine or other players could not open it either. Vlc comes with it’s own internal codec pack and does not rely on system codecs. That is why I wish to know what VLC says it is using.

Windows Media player can open the files, so the codecs are available. The question is in what order was Vegas and the codec pack installed on the machine that worked before. Was vegas installed first and then the codec pack? Or was the codec pack installed before Vegas. Was the order of installation the same in both versions of the Windows installation.

Either way, For myself were I faced with this problem I would first do a clean install. Uninstall Codec pack and Vegas using an uninstaller like Geek. There is a free version available from them here. https://geekuninstaller.com/download
Power down the machine to get a cold boot and reinstall Vegas and pray that it fixes the issue. Do not instal a codec pack. Also I like to have more than one NLE on a system so download Davinci Resolve from Blackmagic Design install it and use it for free. Hey you might end up like me and like it. I only installed Davinci Resolve as a backup NLE but now I use it more than Vegas.

Good Luck, let me know if this helps.
RF

[Nigel O’neill]

[Dhanen Moteuchi] “I already installed Quick Time 7.7.6”

I had the same issue. I would uninstall Quicktime 7.7.6, remove the K-lite codec pack and then install Quicktime 7.6.5 and if everything returns to normal, do not update Quicktime! My issue was with later versions of Quicktime and I have not had any need for the later versions.

My system specs: Intel i7 7700k 4.20 GHz, GTX570, 16GB RAM, Gigabye Z170 HD3, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 10 x64 Pro, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Dhanen Moteuchi]

Hello. Thanks both for the reply:

Nigel: I’ve tried with Quick Time 7.7.5 and didn’t worked neither

Russ: I am attatching the capture with the codec. It seems to be simple MPEG-4 with AAC audio. Not sure why Vegas is not opening it as it is a simple mp4 codec, if I remember it well. I don’t have installed Quick Time Pro, just the codecs part. I installed k-lite before Sony Vegas, if I am not wrong, but tried reinstalling it few time ago when SV was already installed. About using something else than Vegas, I am not sure if I would adapt to use a new program as I am using SV since years and I am very used to using it. About don’t installing k-lite, that shouldn’t give me problems reproducing some kind of videos? Problem was there without k-lite codec pack so I am not sure that could be a problem.

Thanks again.

[Nigel O’neill]

[Dhanen Moteuchi] “I’ve tried with Quick Time 7.7.5 and didn’t worked neither”

I didn’t say that. I said I had to roll back to Quicktime 7.6.5

My system specs: Intel i7 7700k 4.20 GHz, GTX570, 16GB RAM, Gigabye Z170 HD3, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 10 x64 Pro, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6