Sony vegas will not support MOV files???

[John Rofrano]

[Dave Haynie] “You might try copying your .MOV file to a .MP4 file. That sometimes works, though not always.”

That only works if the MOV file contains AVC/H.264 codec. If it contains Avid DNxHD, or ProRes, or MJPEG, or something else that will not work. It only worked for MPEG4 codecs.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[John Rofrano]

[László Kovács] “ffmpeg -i input.mov -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mp4

That’s done in seconds, because there’s no reencodigng. “

It’s important to note that, this will only work if the MOV file contains AVC/H.264 MPEG4 video. You cannot copy without encoding unless the codecs match so, for example, this will not work if the MOV file contains Apple ProRes 422 video.

But I agree, that’s a great way to re-wrap AVC/H.264 files from MOV to MP4 without re-encoding.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[László Kovács]

Hi John,
[John Rofrano] “It’s important to note that, this will only work if the MOV file contains AVC/H.264 MPEG4 video. You cannot copy without encoding unless the codecs match so, for example, this will not work if the MOV file contains Apple ProRes 422 video.”

I agree it won’t work with a codec that Vegas does not support.
But with any of supported codecs should work.
At least I guess so, because I converted this way a MOV which contained mpeg2 video 2 or 3 years ago.
The only one and single mov file I ever met over the years… :))

Kind regards

[John Rofrano]

Yea, I just didn’t want people to think that they could convert any MOV file to MP4 this way. I’m surprised that MPEG2 worked without using an MPG extension. That’s interesting.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Alan Roth]

Thanks for all the information but i’m still stuck.

Been using vegas since it was sonic foundry. Good to know about the lack of support particularly around the file import functions But I’m a little invested in it already – not sure I want to learn a different editor. Do you think that the support of vegas has improved at magix?

I’ve installed vegas 13 on a new windows machine and i’m unable to read a mov file – maybe i’ll try the ffmpeg trick but i think the mov is pro-res so it’s likely not to work.

i tried installing qt 7.7.9 and vegas was still unable to read the video portion of the mov file. i tried installing 7.7.9 and 7.7.6 using tips on youtube i.e. installing all to “run from hard disk”, copying shortcut to vegas folder and running vegas in admin mode.
still no luck. (maybe i always did 64 bit installs but need to do a 32 bit QT install instead??)

i will revert to converting via handbrake at highest quality. any other suggestions appreciated. is there a “clean” codec pack that would do it? (seems like that’s a NO – more than just the codec is needed maybe) Or should QT 7.7.9 (not pro, from apple website) work and i should just try that again?

thanks.

[John Rofrano]

Why don’t you download the trial of MAGIX Vegas Pro 14? It is supposed to have native QuickTime support.

The QuickTime support in Vegas Pro 13 and earlier was definitely 32-bit.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[George Dean]

Hi Alan,

John has the best suggestion, try Magix Vegas Pro 14 trial. It should work. It recognized my ProRes HQ files no problem. If you don’t want to upgrade, I’m running the 7.77 version of Quicktime with little problems within Sony Vegas Pro 13. The specific version shows as 7.77 (1680.95.51) and from within Windows 7 Control Panel Programs it shows version 7.77.80.95. This runs fine on my Windows 7 Pro (64 bit) machine with the exception of loading too many files. For some this is reported as few as 15-20, for others as high as 100. I can usually get 80+ before things start to go south. I guess it has a lot to do with the VP build, windows machine and OS, etc, etc. BTW, my ProRes files come from an Atomos Samurai Blade and Atomos Ninja Flame. You didn’t mention the source of your files.

By the way any Quicktime version for windows is going to be 32 bit.

Best Regards…..George