Cannot import avi. clips from Canon Powershot

Ivo wrote on 12/22/2004, 10:07 AM

I cannot import the .avi videoclips made by Canon Powershot G3 camera. Although they normally play in any other Windows application, after trying to open them in Vegas Movies Studio, just a sound is there, no picture. Could you please advice how to import them completely ?

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gogiants wrote on 12/22/2004, 10:15 AM

I had this same problem with my Canon camera.

There are a couple approaches to get this done. I refreshed my memory by doing a quick Google search and found this good discussion: http://www.moviecodec.com/thread/114.html

From what I recall, and as mentioned in the link, although the file is named as a .avi, Canon actually claims it is a QuickTime file. Clever of them to put the .avi extension on it, no?

I think you can try to trick Movie Studio into editing by maybe renaming the file and/or making sure you have the right version of QuickTime such that you can do editing. (It's still the free QuickTime, but you need to install what I believe they call "authoring components"; do a search on QuickTime on this forum.)

Another option is to get a codec installed on your machine that supports the files; this is what I wound up doing, and there are a couple of suppliers listed if you follow the link I mention above.

Ivo wrote on 12/22/2004, 10:41 AM

Thanks, it helped a lot ! I installed the codec from the mentioned source and it works ...
Thanks again :-)