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Support for Sony dsc-m1 video in vegas
A client brought me mpeg4 video files created with this camera. They are in an mpeg4 format that is supposedly Quicktime.
I am running QT 6.5 and vegas 6.0a build 99.
The individual video files have an mp4 extension. When I drag a file into the vegas timeline, there is a Quicktime error message that says the files is encoded using an mpeg4 profile that qt does not currently supported. I click OK and the error repeats four to six times per clip, but it eventually loads and is playable on the timeline.
Once all the error messages are done, I can render the clip to an output codec.
I have about 35 clips to convert. Any ideas on how I can get past all the error messages and render these files to something easier to work with?
I don’t understand why Sony can’t make cameras that work easily with their own software products. They did the same stupid stuff with micro MV a few years back.
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6 Replies
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First of all, get the 6.0b update for Vegas. Not saying that doing this will magically fix your problems but it’s better to have the current release.
As I see it though, your biggest problem is that the files are from a digital camera, not a video camera. This forum is one of many forums where people are trying to use and/or convert video that (I’m certain) the original coders never even thought of (Divx, & Xvid for example).
Sony is no different than any other manufacturer in releasing products that may not work with other products they build. They’re a huge organization and each division is completely separate. If I was to use your line of reasoning, I’d be complaining because Vegas couldn’t import files from their Cine Alta line of HD cameras. After all, Sony makes it so why can’t Vegas read it?
Bottom line in all of this is that Vegas is a great NLE for the formats it was originally designed for. If you try to deal with anything else, you will have to, as you’ve discovered, jump through hoops 🙁
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Maybe this thread will help.
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/dev_read_post.cgi?forumid=24&postid=856934
Have a great day.
Grasshopper
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Vegas 6.0c was JUST announced and it appears that some of the bug fixes may help you.
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You may also have to update to QT7.
Edward Troxel
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Thanks for the info. I am downloading the update now and will try it.
I was a bit amused by your original reply about how Vegas doesn’t work with cine alta video either. Vegas is not professional enough for cine alta but too professional for a consumer digital camera.
Why make digital still cameras that create files that hardly anyone can view or use?
In the meantime, I did find a workaround:
I used a copy of NeroVision Express which readily read these camera files and converted a couple of them to DVD compliant
MPEG2 which imports into Vegas lickety split. Just one problem. Vegas won’t read an MPEG2 file without interleaved
audio BUT it doesn’t like AC3 audio, which Nero produces. Therefore Vegas imports the video and ignores the audio.What a bunch of bs!
Anyway, the answer to the problem is to use Nerovision Express 3 to convert the clips to a 640×480 MPEG1 file with
MPEG layer 1 audio. Drag the file into vegas and you have audio and video that actually works.I will install the Vegas update first to see if I can avoid all the above gymnastics.
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Why make digital still cameras that create files that hardly anyone can view or use?
For the same reason that manufacturers add all kinds of useless FX to camcorders instead on concentrating on improving the low light capabilities of said camcorders 🙁
IOW, who knows?…BUT it doesn’t like AC3 audio…
It does now!! From the 6.0c readme:
“You can now import video from a DVD Camcorder disc. From the File menu, choose Import, and then choose DVD Camcorder Disc. Standard and VR-mode discs are supported.”
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