Attributes cannot be determined

vukodlak75 wrote on 7/10/2004, 6:21 AM
Capture card= Winfast TV2000 XP Deluxe

I captured a TV program using Winfast PVR (uncompressed AVI) it is about 65 minutes and around 80GB. I imported it into Vegas 5 but only the auio stream shows up. For the video stream it says attributes cannot be determined.
What does this mean?
How can I resolve this issue?

For fun I then tried Windows Movie Maker and it imports both audio and video.

Comments

farss wrote on 7/10/2004, 6:43 AM
For starters that's not the best way to be capturing video but that aside why are you capturing as uncompressed, that's a HUGE amount of data for anything to deal with. Can't you record using DV25 compression?
Either way it sounds like a codec issue. If you right click on the media on the timeline what does it say under Media?
vukodlak75 wrote on 7/10/2004, 8:02 AM
OK, when I right click it says Video Stream offline

you said:
" Can't you record using DV25 compression?"

Need more info on this. I just assumed that capturing in uncompressed would give me the best picture quality. I'll try DV25 if you give me more info, thanks.
erratic wrote on 7/10/2004, 10:02 AM
Try the Huffyuv codec. It's lossless, so it offers the same quality as uncompressed, but the avi files will be smaller. You have to download and install this pre-built DLL (~15K). In the Huffyuv codec configuration you may need to check Always suggest RGB format for output. Instead of capturing the video again you can convert it to Huffyuv with VirtualDub if you have enough disk space.
vukodlak75 wrote on 7/10/2004, 7:19 PM
That huffy codec is awesome, thanks. I used Virtual Dub and compressed it to Huffy. Now it opens up in Vegas. Off to editing.
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epirb wrote on 7/10/2004, 7:32 PM
Gotta love the "Huffy " codec , no luminace compression just the two chromanace signals....
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