Can't Import AVI Video

DebateLord wrote on 8/12/2006, 2:13 PM
I have been using Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 (Build 48) for several months now, and it has always worked just fine. For some reason in the last week or so it suddenly stopped being able to import .avi video files (codec used doesn't matter, it can't import any video file with an .avi extension). When I try to drag an .avi video onto the timeline, it only imports the audio track and not the video track. If I right click on the file on the timeline and look at "stream properties" under "media properties," it lists the correct attributes for the audio stream but says "stream offline" for the video stream. If I click on the same file in the explorer window in the software, it says "Video: Stream attributes could not be determined." I have tried both rebooting my computer and reinstalling the software, and neither thing fixed the problem. Is there any fix for this? I have never had a problem importing .avi video in the past, and I can't imagine why it won't work now. I was messing around with DiVX and XViD a while ago, but I don't see how that could affect other AVI codecs.

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rustier wrote on 8/12/2006, 10:51 PM
the only thing that comes to my mind is that you may have a corrupt or missing codec. (which may have happened accidentally in your adventures) You can take a peek if you click control panel, sound and audio devices,hardware, highlight video codecs, click properties, then the properties tab, then scroll through your codecs and check the properties of each one.

the only other thing I can think of is to go to microsoft support and search their data base on your avi problem

I guess I should have asked this first - can you play avi in other programs like Microsoft movie, or the media player? If you can I would suspect it's some other kind of bug. Are these videos already installed on your computer and if so have you tried a "fresh" capture from your camera to see how it is working? Is it possible you were manipultaing your files and snagged some of the wrong ones? When you open a project and something is missing there is a dialogue box that pops up and asks you if you want it to search for the missing stuff. Is it possible you told the software to ignore the offline stuff?

I believe VMS brings some codecs with their software - but it also uses whatever (compatible) codecs are installed on your computer - which may explain why uninstalling and reinstalling didn't help you.

there are some pretty good computer guys in this forum which may be able to help you more - good luck with it.
Andy C wrote on 8/12/2006, 10:59 PM
DebateLord,

Check out http://gspot.headbands.com/. They have a program called GSpot that looks at your AVI file and tells you what codec was used to encode it with.
I couldn't import a certain type of AVI recently and this util identified it immediately.

Andy.
pdx10 wrote on 8/17/2006, 1:24 AM
I had the same trouble the other day. I tried to import avi videos from my still digital camera. The way I got around it was with Windows Movie Maker. I imported the avi file into WMM then rendered it to avi, then imported it into vegas. Worked fine.
somechick wrote on 9/24/2006, 3:12 PM
I'm having the same problem. I downloaded gspot and it told me that I have all the codecs and that the codec used for my avi was mjpeg. Then it told me that I have the codecs installed.

So if gspot tells me I have what I need, yet I'm still having the same problems as DebateLord up there, what do I do next?
SEW wrote on 9/24/2006, 5:44 PM
Did you try to render in Gspot ? Which codec did it use?

Generally, people need to add a codec for VMS to insert mjpeg videos.
Check out this thread
somechick wrote on 9/25/2006, 9:27 AM
Thanks so much SEW! Works perfectly. I'm totally not understanding anything about codecs, thanks for the help!