Vegas Pro 10 renders AVI as WDP

[Mike Kujbida]

Tom, that makes no sense whatsoever.
Are you using the DV-AVI option or something else?

[Tom Zeller]

Hi Mike,

I know it makes no sense at all and fact is, I have been using Vegas for years and I’m doing it the same way I always have.

So I select AVI in the render box and sometimes in the file name box the extension stays AVI and sometimes it actually changes to WDP, but not matter what it does in the file name box, it always says saving as .WDP in the dialog box after you click okay.

Again, I understand that it makes no sense…but that is what it is doing. Very bizarre. It occurred to me that there is possibly a virus on my computer, but that seems like a weird reaction to a virus (if there is one).

Thanks.

[Tom Zeller]

Oh sorry…yes, just like you show in the screen capture, but widescreen w/ pulldowns.

[Joe White]

Have you recently installed a “Codec pack”?

[Mike Kujbida]

Besides being a Windows Media photo file, WDP can also be a text document that was created using Corel’s WordPerfect or a few others too.
Further to Joe’s suggestion, have you installed or updated anything lately?

[Tom Zeller]

Hi Joe,

I assume you just mean standard video codec packs…not that I know of, although it seems that sometimes VLC downloads what it needs.

What are your thoughts regarding new codec packs?

Thanks.

-Tom

[Myron Brittain]

I just registered to say that I am having the exact same problem, but with SoundForge 10 and .wav files. I can’t for the life of me figure out what is causing the problem. It basically renders the application unusable.

Did you ever find a solution?

[Tom Zeller]

Hi,

Sorry for the late response here. No. I never found a solution, even in version 10e of Vegas, it is still doing this crap.

Good luck.

-T

[Xay Ly]

I am also having the same issue as the OP. I don’t know why it does that; however, here’s a dirty work-around that I figured out…

Just save it as you normally would, and when it saves it as a .wdp file, go to the location where you saved it and rename the file extension to whatever file exension you used. In your case, you would change myvideofile.wdp to myvideofile.avi. In my case, I tried rendering just the audio track to a WAV extension so that I could edit the sound in Audacity but of course it saved it as myaudiofile.wdp. So I simply changed the file extension to myaudiofile.wav and VOILA!! It works! 🙂

I wish there is a better solution but until then, this is what works for me. It’s an extra task but, hey, it works! 🙂 I hope this helps you or anyone else having the same problem. Of course, if any of you knows why this is happening or knows how to fix it permanently, please shed some light on the subject. Thanks!!

[Emilio Le roux]

Sorry to reply to an old thread, yet I have some light about the causes, at least in my case. I don’t have a solution yet.

A week ago, right after clean installing my whole system (Windows 7), I tried to install a ‘portable’ version of Internet Explorer v. 7 because I needed the compatibility for my internet banking. Great error, this installation messed up my whole system, and no system restore or cleaning tool helped me. Then I applied a fix that involved re-registering DLLs and, while my PC is functional now, this little problem remains.

Vegas believes that all Video For Windows, Sony MXF, Sony Perfect Clarity Audio, and WAV audio files, should use the ‘.wdp’ extension. This is most probably a registry problem.