.AVI has audio but no video?

Randy Brown wrote on 10/29/2009, 1:48 PM

I have three .AVIs that a client sent me; in V8 if I drag them onto the timeline or import media only the audio shows up...in windows media player they plat fine.
Your advice would be very much appreciated as my deadline is tomorrow.
Thanks very much,
Randy

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musicvid10 wrote on 10/29/2009, 1:53 PM

Download MediaInfo and post all the information about your files. I should be able to help. I'll be at my computer for another hour (until 5 Eastern time).

Randy Brown wrote on 10/29/2009, 2:21 PM

AVI: 28.5 MiB, 58s 501 ms
1 video stream: AVC
1 audio stream mp3

1st video stream 3 828 Kbps, 16:9 at 24.982 fps

weird frame rate musicvid????
Thanks very much,
Randy

MPM wrote on 10/29/2009, 4:35 PM

Vegas doesn't know what to do with the video -- can't decode it. If you check the properties (under file menu) while the AVC is opened in wmplayer, it'll tell you what it's using. Some like GSpot, which tells you what's installed & what will work on that file. Once you find out what works, find/install something with the same capabilities that works with Vegas. As an alternative, could check out dgavcdec [the avc form of DGIndex]. Or you could render to an intermediate, or *possibly* frame serve to Vegas.

Also, if you're running Vegas 64, 32 bit codecs won't work -- need to use 32 bit instead. And some codecs have settings, either through their own dialog, or you can reach them through other video apps... Sometimes all it takes is adjusting those so Vegas is happy, like RGB instead of YUV.

musicvid10 wrote on 10/29/2009, 7:16 PM

Randy,
Download and install the x264vfw codec from sourceforge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/
This should solve your problem.
Let me know if it worked. Hope it does.

Randy Brown wrote on 10/30/2009, 10:03 AM

Thanks very much guys, the client sent another file that worked fine.
Thanks again for your help,
Randy