canon video files

auggybendoggy wrote on 4/29/2007, 10:34 PM

Guys,
I shot video with my IS2 canon camera (point and shoot digital)
and the avi files wont load into vegas. I only get audio.

It plays fine in real player and windows media but not in vegas.

Is there a way to get it into vegas like a conversion or perhaps a plug in?

Aug

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 4/29/2007, 11:15 PM

You need an mjpeg codec on your system.
Search these fora for a link to one of several mjpeg codecs that are free.

auggybendoggy wrote on 4/30/2007, 10:34 AM

thanks spot, I def will.

aug

johnmeyer wrote on 4/30/2007, 11:22 AM

You can use the Motion JPEG demo from MainConcept. It will watermark anything you encode, but the decode works fine:

Motion JPEG MainConcept Demo

ritsmer wrote on 5/1/2007, 12:51 AM

I have used several Canon Digital cameras (from the Ixus series) for some years now, and found that the Morgan Codec is fast and reliable:

http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/

Shooting with theese cameras you some times have noisy/grainy video clips - mostly shooting with low light - but also at daylight a hazy sky tends to get irritating noisy.
This is however easily filtered with the Neat video filter:

http://www.neatimage.com/

which often surprises in making nearly unusable clips 1A rated.
As this filter is heavy on the CPUs it is a good idea to render the clips in question to AVI files and then use this output for editing.

BTW this type of cameras gives the possibility to mix quality stills into the project. You sometimes get a good effect mixing in 3-5 stills taken with few seconds intervals - and maybe fitted to the beat of your background music... :-)

Jonathan Neal wrote on 5/1/2007, 1:07 AM

But are there any free M-JPEG codecs?

ScottW wrote on 5/1/2007, 6:06 AM

For decoding only, yes, the mainconcept codec.

auggybendoggy wrote on 5/3/2007, 9:49 PM

my comp has a decoder as I can watch the movies with real player or windows media however I cant load it into vegas for editing.

I think I need to buy an encoder???

Aug

jetdv wrote on 5/4/2007, 7:11 AM

You need a decoder that Vegas can actually use. Those other programs are using a decoder that Vegas can't use.

Ayath The Loafer wrote on 5/7/2007, 1:09 PM

Alternatively you can probably use some of the software you already have.

I have a primitive film maker program - name escapes me at the moment that came with the camera software (on the other pc that is out of order at the moment) - which I load the Canon video sequence into. Then I render it to uncompressed avi and Vegas is good to go.

On this pc I use Camtasia to make the uncompressed avi file.

J. Holst-Rasmussen