AVI sound lost

speedbag wrote on 6/10/2006, 7:39 PM

Hello group,

I am having an audio import problem with Vegas MovieStudio. I often import .AVI video that I've downloaded from the web, or captured myself, and the audio track doesn't come into VMS. Some .avi audio will, but most won't.

I usually have to put the .AVI file into windows movie maker and render as a .wmv file to get the sound in. A simple but annoying fix. Is there a codec secret I don't know about??

thanks for any help.

Comments

ritsmer wrote on 6/11/2006, 1:26 AM

I had similiar problems - it seems as if "AVI" is not always the same thing.

You can analyze what an AVI-file actually contains using AVIcodec from http://www.free-codecs.com/download/AVIcodec.htm

I bought a codec from http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/ - the M-Jpeg codec v3 - and since I had no more problems with that...

IanG wrote on 6/11/2006, 4:03 AM

>I had similiar problems - it seems as if "AVI" is not always the same thing.

It isn't! AVI files are just containers - to play the content you need the same codec on your pc that was used to render the video originaly. GSpot is another popular tool for getting the codec info.

Ian G

Tim L wrote on 6/11/2006, 10:13 AM

If this is any .avi file *other* than std DV video, its probably a codec issue, and I have no advice whatsoever about what to do... (sorry)

However, if this is a standard "DV .avi" file that has no sound in VMS: I think I saw a posting about this on www.camcorderinfo.com. If I recall correctly, the problem might be due to Type 1 vs. Type 2 DV .avi files. One of them works with Vegas, the other doesn't -- no sound. I don't remember which is "good" and which is "bad" with Vegas/VMS, but it might give you something more to search on.

Tim L

Edit -- Okay, I found the link. The original info is actually on the www.pana3ccduser.com website, which I saw linked to from camcorderinfo.com:

http://media.pana3ccduser.com/wiki/index.php?No%20Audio%20after%20Capture