Studio 8 won’t import video file to Video Track

[Edward Troxel]

If it won’t show you the video then you don’t have the proper video codec installed for that type of video. “AVI” is just a wrapper that can hold many different types of video. You have a file that you don’t have a codec for. You need to figure out what codec was used and get the proper codec installed. What’s the source of the file?

Edward Troxel

[Steve Littler]

Dear Edward,

The source of this file is an AVI produced from my Canon PowerShot SD630 digital camera set in the video mode.

(I am able to see it and render it in another video editor I have called AVS Video Editor which I bought online from here https://www.avs4you.com/ but I wanted to learn Sony Vega on the hopes it would be more powerful and easier to use.)

Steve

[Steve Littler]

I previously had Vegas Studio 8.0 Platinum Trial installed. I wonder if I should uninstall both versions and reinstall my Studio 8 and see if that does anything?

Steve

[Edward Troxel]

Since it’s from a digital STILL camera, there’s a good chance it needs an MJPEG codec to open. Some still cameras now do MPEG4, though. You could download an MJPEG codec and see if it works. Or use something like “GSpot” to tell you what codec is used.

Edward Troxel

[Steve Littler]

This review https://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_sd630-review/
says “Movies are saved in AVI format, using the M-JPEG codec.”

Does that make sense, or is that just generic?

[Edward Troxel]

Yep, that confirms what I said. Download and install an MJPEG codec and it will work fine. If you do a search in the two Vegas forums here on the Cow, I’m sure you will find some links to an MJPEG codec.

Vegas Pro 8 now includes the ability to read MJPEG files so I would guess the Movie Studio versions will probably also get that ability.

Edward Troxel

[Steve Littler]

hmm…I saw one of your posts about MJPEG and I did a search and came up with this https://www.free-codecs.com/Motion_JPEG_Codec_download.htm
andi I downloaded and installed it. During installation the installer said I would need the demo version of Main Concepts so I allowed it to install that.

Then I opened Vegas and it now allowed my AVI file to be added to the Video track. But then it also says (Media Offline) over the track. I’m not sure exactly what that means and if they are going to want me to pay for the codec later?

So then I tried to render a Quicktime file from my 2:55 minute AVI file. That took 26 minutes, (and during the last 10 minutes the Preview Frame was black.) And it rendered me a 6.3 GB file. And it was jerky and skippy when it played.

When I did the same action with my AVS4YOU Video Editor it rendered the QT file in 16 minutes and gave a file of 71 MB that play smoothly.

So, I’m wondering why I’m still not getting a good result with the Vegas?

Should I uninstall that codec and get another?

I saw this link https://www.free-codecs.com/download/ACE_Mega_CoDecS_Pack.htm
and wondered if I should try that? That looks like a whole bunch of stuff at once. Would that compound troubles?

My overall goals are to make lots of short QT videos quickly that I can import into Flash for export to the Web.

Also to make some longer dance videos up to 1 hour that I can quickly burn to DVDs.

Is Vegas going to be a good tool for that, or is it typically a slow rendering tool?

[Edward Troxel]

I wouldn’t install a “codec pack”. In fact, I’d probably restore back to before you installed this codec and then look here:

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=168761

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=178119

Edward Troxel

[Steve Littler]

Well, I un-installed the Main Concepts trial, then went to their Web site and paid $21.00 for the download, and it has the same result as before. Slow render, extra large QT output file, and jumpy playback.

I wonder if this is a common problem with the Studio version?

I wonder if the Platinum Version of Sony Vegas already had a MJPEG codec?

How does the Sony Vegas Pro version work?

[Edward Troxel]

I never use QT for output. The few times I have used QT I’ve not really been happy. So I stick with DV-AVI, MPEG2, and WMV for the most part.

As for Vegas Pro vs. Vegas Movie Studio, Vegas Pro operates the same but has many more features.

Edward Troxel