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Sony Vegas 12 64bit x264vfw opening problem
My Sony Vegas Pro 12(64bit) wont under any circumstances open x264 avi files(or amv3 or amm2 for that matter, its probably the same issue). The funny thing is i can render in all three of those codecs but i cant open them. Anyone knows a fix for this? I have both 32 and 64bit version of x264vfw installed. I just dont know what to do. Premiere opens it without a problem but vegas wont. Anyone can help me out with this?
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I’m assuming you are saying you can’t open a project that includes those particular files. If so, try to open your project using windows explorer instead of opening the project within Vegas itself.
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No i mean i cant put the video file into vegas, it says it cant recognize it, im talking about x264vfw avi files(and amm2 and amv3, but not that relevant) not h264 mp4s those work just fine. But i think ive exhausted my options with x264 theoretically it should work by now, i may have to reinstall windows to get this working. But in the meantime i have found a workaround. My original problem was that i have a capture card software that is brilliant in every way except it only records with video for windows codecs so i needed one that had decent compression. Now ive settled on CineForm it does the job and my Vegas can work with it.
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That’s not a huge shock. This was also a problem when DivX was popular. The AVI container is a really bad match for MPEG-4 era CODECs like MPEG ASP (the basis for the original DivX) and H.264. And it’s worse, yet, for editing. I don’t think the Vegas designers have really even given much consideration to editing MPEG-4 CODECs in AVC wrappers, because, essentially, they don’t exist in common use.
You might be able to get a program like XMedia Recode or Yamb, re-multiplex the AVI into an MP4 wrapper, and try that in Vegas. As others will probably point out, the MPEG-4 specification is a monsterous thing, and it’s not guaranteed that any given MPEG-4 reader will handle any given MPEG-4 file. The MPEG folks are primarily making these technologies for use in other specifications, not directly… thus you have MPEG-2 technologies as a part of DVD and ATSC, MPEG-4 technologies as a part of Blu-ray, etc.
With that said, I’ve never had a problem editing any MP4 files created by Yamb. In fact, I used to have a toy-ish Sanyo camcorder that produced flawed .MP4 files, which, once re-multiplexed in Yamb, worked just dandy in Vegas. BTW, Yamb and XMedia Recode are both freeware.
-Dave
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As Dave pointed out, stop using H.264 in an AVI container. It’s not supported well by Vegas Pro as you have seen. Create proper MP4 files and you should be fine.
~jr
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