Vegas won’t open an mpeg file

[Charles Avanti]

Try draging it on to the timeline using windows explorer. If it has AC3 audio, it will take additional steps to get audio.

Charlie

[Mark Moss]

Negative. I tried explorer, I tried importing, and it won’t take it. It says that it is unsupported. I tried to take it from the disc, I tried putting the file on the hard drive and then importing it. Nothing seems to work.

BTW..There’s no audio.

Any other ideas?

Mark Moss
Mossman Productions

[Allen Zagel]

Is it MPEG-4 maybe? As far as I know, you can’t edit MPEG’s in Vegas. I may be wrong though but I tried it before and no go.
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[Mark Moss]

I didn’t even think about it being an MPEG 4. That could be the problem. Does anybody have a way to change it from an MPEG 4 to something that Vegas will see?

Mark Moss
Mossman Productions

[Gordon Nicol]

Mark,
This is rather timely because I just had the same problem.
I use Final Cut Pro for all my video editing and, until I upgraded to FCP5, I could create MPEG-4 files and Vegas would recognize them.
Now, with FCP5 things have changed quite a bit with the options when creating MPEG-4 files. One of the big differences is the extension is now .mp4 instead of .mov.
I’ve been scratching my head too and then I read the post. I never thought to try dragging in from Exporer. And, at first, it appears that it won’t drag. But I tried a few times and, lo and behold, it worked. It’s really strange that it doesn’t appear at all in Vegas’s Explorer browser.
Why don’t you be persistent and it may work for you too.

Gordon

[Charles Avanti]

One other thing I remember now is, after you go through the “motions” of draging the mpg with Explorer to Vegas “timeline” (not media pool”, then…….give it some time…..wait a minute for the cpu & Vegas to do something.

Charlie

[Mark Moss]

Well, I tried everything, and nothing seemed to work. Here’s how I finally made it happen.

Vegas wouldn’t open the file, but DVD Architect did. I opened the file through DVD Architect and played it through my firewire and dubbed it to a DV tape. From the DVD tape I captured it as an AVI file.

I’m not sure if there was an easier way to do it, but this seemed to work, so I’m happy. I’m surprised that no one seemed to have had this problem before, but now I know a workaround.

Thanks for all of the input,

Mark

Mark Moss
Mossman Productions