Can't import uncompressed videos in Movie Studio

Reynard L. wrote on 12/12/2013, 11:56 PM
Hey all! I bought a Blackmagic Design Shuttle II and it records uncompressed video from my NEX-VG30 via HDMI. However, Movie Studio Platinum 12 says it can't import the files. It says "None of the files dropped on Movie studio Platinum could be opened."

The file plays on VLC decently (not great, my PC isn't great), barely works on Windows Media Player and only really plays the first frame in Quicktime.

Can anyone help?

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Warper wrote on 12/13/2013, 2:49 AM
BlackMagic states that it records in uncompressed quicktime format, so it should be playable in quicktime player in a first place. MovieStudio uses quicktime libraries to read quicktime files, so you need to fix quicktime somehow.
Steve Mann wrote on 12/13/2013, 10:50 PM
You didn't put your system specs in your profile, so we can take your word for it that your PC isn't great...

But, that error message means that the codec required to decode the file is not installed on your system.

As Warp says, if you can't play it with QT, then it isn't a Vegas problem.

Actually, can you make a minute of video from the BM available for us to look at it?
musicvid10 wrote on 12/13/2013, 10:55 PM
This is the Vegas Pro forum, for a different version of the software than you own.

On the Vegas Movie Studio forum, please post your Quicktime version, and media properties reported by Mediainfo, a free download from Sourceforge.
Without that critical information, speculation is futile.
Steve Mann wrote on 12/13/2013, 11:08 PM
Yes, this is the pro version forum, but the Studio forum isn't frequented by the experts on this forum. There's not a week that there isn't at least one frustrated Studio user coming here because they got no response on the Studio forum.
Reynard L. wrote on 1/26/2014, 8:03 PM
I downloaded quicktime to play the file and I even tried quicktime alternative and while the file kinda plays in windows media player and vlc, but they don't play very well.

Below is a link to one of the files I'm trying to edit, I've got a dozen like it and they're all huge as well (this is 1:04 and 10GB)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18162853/Capture0018.mov (uploaded)

I have an Intel Core i5 M450
8GB of, I believe 1333 RAM
The Intel HD graphics aren't great but they do the job in many cases

I don't mind taking a while to edit and render, I only recorded small bits kn this format. Also, sorry for how long it took to reply, I've been crazy busy.
john_dennis wrote on 1/26/2014, 8:35 PM
Can't download the file. Is it in a public area on dropbox.com?

If it's 10 GB, I likely don't have enough life left to download it. Try 500 MB or something less burdensome.
Reynard L. wrote on 1/26/2014, 8:43 PM
Unfortunately, that's the shortest file I have recorded with it. It's not done uploading yet, sorry, I thought it'd be done by now.
VidMus wrote on 1/27/2014, 11:05 PM
Downloaded the file (sort of) and waited for it to finish only to get an error at the end of downloading it.

Clicked on the error link and got this:

"Error (509)
This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!"

So find another way...

NormanPCN wrote on 1/28/2014, 12:14 AM
You can use Avidemux (free) to trim the clip down without a re-encode. Copy mode in Avidemux can trim a clip at an I-frame boundary and get a smaller file without encoding. A few seconds or whatever is necessary to dup your issue should suffice.

This of course assumes, Avidemux does not have a problem with the file.