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  • Sony Vegas Pro 14 not recognizing audio files?

    Posted by Miro Floydike on December 3, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    Hello, i have recently had a new hard disk driver installed on Acer Nitro 5. The system was reinstalled, but when i installed my copy of Vegas, it no longer recognized mp3 files. Whenever i tried to open one it crashed, whenever i tried to open my existing projects, they crashed too. Whenever i tried to import a video file with audio, it got stuck trying to create a .sfk file.

    I noticed my hard drive disk had a fault that it didn’t properly process any media files, and as such Windows Media Player got stuck. I can use my external drive just fine to store those files, but there’s still the Vegas problem. I tried to look up similar problems, and apparently some component may have interfered with the installation.

    Any ideas what would make Vegas work properly again?

    Francois Pénzes replied 6 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Francois Pénzes

    December 3, 2019 at 6:48 pm

    Hi Miro

    First off, try as much as possible to stay away from MP3s. It’s a lossy format. Compression can be anywhere from 75 to 90%. Not much quality there. Every time you use a compressed file, audio or video, you add to the possibility of having problems depending on you setup.

    When you re-installed, did you add any outside plug-ins like K-lite Codec Pack or anything else along the same line ?

    Would be nice to have a Mediainfo on one of your problematic MP3 files. Here’s the link if you don’t have Mediainfo

    https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

    Cheers !

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