digital still camera codecs

Stonefield wrote on 11/28/2005, 9:37 PM
Hey guys....

How are ya ? ....good , good.....

A friend / client of mine sent me some video he shot on his hybrid still/video camera. I told him to get a MiniDV but ya think he'd listen ???

So what he gave me ends in a MP4 extension. Quicktime player plays it, Nero plays it, Windows Media player plays it....Vegas can't see it.

Any thoughts on being able to get this into Vegas ?
( no, there is no DRM on my friend's tape )

Stan

Comments

Coursedesign wrote on 11/28/2005, 10:11 PM
Convert in QT Pro to a different format.
ottowr wrote on 11/28/2005, 10:12 PM
All I can suggest is that if Quicktime opens it, then Quicktime Pro would enable you to convert it to another format.

(aaah Coursedesign beat me by 30 seconds!)
Sol M. wrote on 11/29/2005, 12:32 AM
What is the make/model of the camera?

Some digital still cameras use Mpeg-4 codecs where the FourCC code needs to be changed (using a tool like this) for Vegas to properly decode it. Those clips worked fine in Vegas after that (and were still playable in all other media players as well). But this only worked for certain make/models of cameras, so knowing the make/model of the cam is pretty important to figuring out how exactly to get Vegas to decode the video.

May not be the case for your friend's camera, since this pretty much applies to Mpeg-4 encoded AVI files, but you never know.
FuTz wrote on 11/29/2005, 1:14 AM
Maybe Win MovieMaker could re-format these files?
johnmeyer wrote on 11/29/2005, 7:08 AM
Many of these files use MJPEG format, not MPEG4. You can download the MJPEG codec from the Mainconcept site (the demo will work fine). Install that and see if you can import the file into Vegas.
Sol M. wrote on 11/29/2005, 5:52 PM
Actually, whereas older digital cameras would often use the MJPEG codec for video clips, several manufacturers have adopted a Divx variant (or other MPEG-4 codec) for encoding video clips.

Generally, if the extension is .MPG, it most likely will be MJPEG, and if it is AVI (and a newer model camera), it's very likely it's MPEG-4.

Besides, Stonefield said the file had a MP4 extension. That would indicate MPEG-4, no?