A little help for a newb?
gummo1
wrote on 8/17/2004, 3:28 PM
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Spot|DSE
wrote on 8/17/2004, 3:38 PM
Sounds like you're missing the codec Riverpast used to create the file with, or Vegas can't read the codec used to create the avi file.
To have it small enough to mail, you'd likely want to put it in a streaming format, such as wmv or .mov. Vegas can author both, but obviously the first thing you need to do is convert the file to a format that Vegas can read. I don't know much about .dat files, other than I thought they were generic format files that need their specific reader for Palm and CE OS's?
To have it small enough to mail, you'd likely want to put it in a streaming format, such as wmv or .mov. Vegas can author both, but obviously the first thing you need to do is convert the file to a format that Vegas can read. I don't know much about .dat files, other than I thought they were generic format files that need their specific reader for Palm and CE OS's?
filmy
wrote on 8/17/2004, 4:07 PM
What Riverpast program are you using is the first question. When you open the file can you preview it? If so than output should be fine. If it is Video Cleaner than you need to select a format that Vegas can read - by default you can use the DV setting and it should work fine, there really is no setting to be changed going that route - file in and DV, using the MS DV codec, out. If you have Main ConceptDV or the DVCPro codec installed than you need to select the AVI setting and choose compression setting for MainConcept. Again, this should read fine in Vegas. For the most part Video Perspective is the same program except it deals with aspect ratio. FWIW I wish Video Cleaner would add the aspect ratio settings as well, going from HD to SD or vice versa for example. Currently if you take a 16:9 flagged file of any kind and output to, say, DV it will not keep the flags. I have asked them about this sort of thing in the past.
There have been some issues with MPG reading and rendering, you should check the Riverpast boards for posts about this. Keep in mind that by default if the DAT file is MPEG 2 it may not decode unless you have another codec installed that will decode Mpeg2 files. But that being the case you should get an error about "The following file does not contain recognizable video..." and it doesn't seem like you are getting that error.
There have been some issues with MPG reading and rendering, you should check the Riverpast boards for posts about this. Keep in mind that by default if the DAT file is MPEG 2 it may not decode unless you have another codec installed that will decode Mpeg2 files. But that being the case you should get an error about "The following file does not contain recognizable video..." and it doesn't seem like you are getting that error.
gummo1
wrote on 8/17/2004, 4:26 PM
wolfbass
wrote on 8/17/2004, 5:49 PM
Very quickly:
Use your mouse to select the area of the clip you want to keep.
Hit 's' key
Every thing else should disappear. Render the file to the format you need.
End.
HTH
ANDY
Use your mouse to select the area of the clip you want to keep.
Hit 's' key
Every thing else should disappear. Render the file to the format you need.
End.
HTH
ANDY
Spot|DSE
wrote on 8/17/2004, 6:40 PM
Or, select the area you want and hit CTRL+T, and everything BEFORE and AFTER your selected area will be deleted from the timeline.
FuTz
wrote on 8/18/2004, 10:09 AM
Wow, what was the question? Could be useful for everybody now, lol !!