What you do with files you can’t import into Sony Vegas?

[Petr Berger]

“We are unable to display the page you requested.”

[Mike Kujbida]

Looks like you’ll have to try later or do a search for “x264 vfw codec” on your own.

[Petr Berger]

I installed the codec, but it still doesnt work…

[John Rofrano]

You might want to try AviDemux to convert them to Motion-JPEG video with PCM audio. Here are the settings to use:

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
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[Petr Berger]

Why motion JPEG?

[John Rofrano]

[Petr Berger] “Why motion JPEG?”

Because unlike MPEG4 which uses a interframe long GOP compression which is difficult to edit, Motion-JPEG uses a intraframe compression which is very easy to edit and yields good quality but requires larger file sizes.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Petr Berger]

The weird thing is that the sound is out of sync when I try to convert it. Its 24 fps and I need it in 25 fps, but thats not much difference. I had not such big problems in conversions like this.
But I found program called MPEG video Wizard on my HDD and it can converts it fine to mpg.

[Dave Haynie]

[Petr Berger] “I had manytimes problem opening mp4 files in Sony Vegas 10… Vegas sometimes crashes when opening mp4 files.”

Well, you know, you pick up candy on the street, you never really know where it’s been. You might need to wash it off, at the least.

But I have actually run into a few problems with Vegas. Basically, Vegas is optimized (well, it is.. not that it couldn’t be better) for decoding correct MP4 files. So if there’s a bug of some kind, whether its a glitch or other anomaly, Vegas might crash — it’s not wasting the time to do the checks necessary to properly handle such errors.

I first ran into this with the Sanyo Xacti FH1, a pocket camcorder that shot native to MP4 files. I eventually figured out it was producing negative timecodes, which Vegas choked on.

The fix was fairly simple: I used the freeware MP4Box tool, via the YAMB (Yet Another MP3Box User Interface) GUI, to demux and remux the MP4. Once so treated, Vegas handled the video just fine. That’s faster than re-coding, and it doesn’t affect quality at all, of course. Check out YAMB here: https://yamb.unite-video.com/

-Dave