I am a real newby. I have the trial version of Platinum and I rendered this less than 2 minute movie to an avi format. I tried to load it to my flash drive so I could show it on my Epson projector, but it won't load to my empty 128 GB San Disk flash drive. Does anyone have any ideas?
Your Flash drive should be formatted as either NTFS or EXFAT. Otherwise, your file is restricted to a 4gig size.
OK. Thanks. I searched how to format it to NTFS and I'll try doing this.
But be warned - if you are using the drive on a TV not all TVs will play NTFS. My Panasonic only accepts FAT16 and FAT32. Also avi is not a file type that all TVs will play. It is not considered a delivery format. Is there a reason you are exporting as avi?
Thanks vk. I had subsequently discovered it's an Epson projector involved. But it's rather bizarre. Lynne's less than 2 min avi is 10.3 gb. Presumably uncompressed. Obviously not suitable.
Lynne a few questions in order to lead you in a more suitable direction:
1 - What model is your projector
2 - What is your source material and where does it come from
3 - Is your export to be SD, HD, or UHD.
First of all, I really appreciate everything everyone has said to try to help me. Eric, I have a new (I've had it a few weeks) Epson VS250 SVGA 3 LCD projector. Hopefully I'm understanding you right on your #2 question. I had taken some pictures with my iPhone and saved them onto my HP laptop. Other source material is me speaking into my HP laptop using the audio recorder with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum (free downloaded trial version). I rendered my less than 2 minute movie to the avi format on Platinum (save to ________ now I can't remember what it's called. I need to check it again by trying to render another short movie), then clicked on the window to the right where I saw pcm codec (as the Epson person had said I need pcm codec). I exported this to my San Disk usb 128 bg flashdrive with only this video on it. I put this flashdrive into the usb slot in the back of my Epson projector. I got a notice that the usb device isn't formatted. Then I formatted it to NTFS. I tried it again in the Epson projector and got the same message. Then I formatted it to something FAT and tried it again. Again, my Epson displayed a message saying my usb device is not formatted. All this is really interesting to me, but there is something I'm not doing right - or several things I'm not doing right.
Lynne, "AVI" got stuck in your head somehow and that's so not even what you want.
Once you've assembled your movie and sound in Vegas, render to 1080p Internet mp4.
Or 720p Internet mp4 if it projects choppy.
Put it on a flash drive. Any flash drive will do, as long as the file is smaller than 4GB.
Put the flash drive in the projector. Done.
Once again, framing your playback question as a codec question is likely to draw a lot of spurious responses. Best.
Hello. The reason AVI was in my head was because the technician at Epson said I needed to use AVI and that I need pcm or adpcm as the codec. Who know? Maybe the technician (or customer service person?) didn't know what they were talking about. I really don't know. This is one big learning experience. I'll try your method. My first method produced a choppy movie (sound choppy) when I played it back on my laptop. Thanks. Take care.
It took a while but I found the specs for USB Flash drive use. It must be an MJPEG-AVI file, cannot be larger than 2gigs and must be on a FAT or FAT32. Movie Studio does not contain an MJPEG codec natively.
https://files.support.epson.com/docid/cpd5/cpd53733/index.html
So, from what your saving, I can not use Movie Studio to create a movie I can put on a usb flash drive. Right?
I mean, that will work in my Eason projector.
I was responding to another person here.
Musicvid, the specs on the projector that I found says it only supports MJPEG-AVI off of a flash drive.
Well that's weird but Vegas won't render mjpeg AVI without an external encoder.
Or alternatively export as mp4 and convert with one of the free downloadable video convertors.
The Epson specification for flash drive is somewhat limited.
Yes, this is a good idea, exporting it as mp4. I wish the Epson projector wasn't so limited with the usb port regarding movies. Epson also says the avi file should be avi 1.0 and it needs to be saved with codec pcm or adpcm. I keep searching for avi 1.0 with pcm. I really don't know exactly what I'm doing, so this is a big learning experience. I'd really like to be able to use the flash drive as I don't especially want to have to carry around my laptop, too, if I show any movies anywhere.
I would suggest you get a Media player. Do a search for USB media player on Amazon or the web and you will see many options. They are better than dragging computer and will be high quality.
After all this, I decided to buy NCH Video Pad this afternoon. It does convert to AVI with codec PCM. Thanks for everyone's help.
Before you buy, it might be wise to use a trial version if available or check with NCH to confirm that it produces AVI files with the MJPEG codec that the Epson Projector requires.
I did use the free trial version of Video Pad. I experimented and made a very short movie. But, then I tried to export it to make a video, it wouldn't allow me to do it without buying it. So, I bought it. It seems fine, but there is a bug in the AVI (I don't know how to term this) and only my audio was made into a movie, not pictures. I need to figure out how to contact them to say there is some bug. I was able to make MP4 with no problem, though. I still have the free trial version of Vegas Movie Studio, too.
I'm not familiar with the program or the company but if you purchased the program try https://www.nch.com.au/support/supportcontact.html?software=VideoPad&support=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nchsoftware.com%2Fvideopad%2Fsupport.html&pty=1&purchaseclass=videopad&dldwin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nch.com.au%2Fcomponents%2Fvpsetup.exe&dldmac=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nchsoftware.com%2Fvideopad%2Fvpmaci.zip
Robbie, thank you for this link to get support from NCH. I'll do it tomorrow. Thanks so much for this. I like this Vegas forum. All of you are really helpful.
Lynne-I, please, did it work? I am facing the same issue. Thanks a million
@renata-n ... please don't hold out too much hope for a reply - the last forum comment from Lynne-l was some 5.5 years ago. If you want to direct a comment to a particular forum member, hold down Shfit+@ and then select the forum member from the list that pops up. That will then send a link to the forum member's email address - assuming that it is still the same all these years later.