divx / avi movie

dyer010 wrote on 9/19/2004, 11:42 AM
i have a divx movie that i want to edit using vegas 5.0 can i edit the movie and if so how. P.S. do i need to install any new codecs to do so. also evey time i try to edit the divx movie the only thing i can do is play with the sound. I have read older forums that say you can edit divx movies with vegas but it does clearly explain how to do so.

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Laurence wrote on 9/19/2004, 9:00 PM
All I get is the audio as well. I have the divx codecs and can encode divx (albiet with crashes most of the time), and I can play divx movies from media player, but editing divx with Vegas still eludes me as well.
dyer010 wrote on 9/19/2004, 9:45 PM
can someone please help its very import
Spot|DSE wrote on 9/19/2004, 10:16 PM
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=292955
Laurence wrote on 9/19/2004, 10:48 PM
Thanks Spot! Got it working finally!
Laurence wrote on 9/19/2004, 11:05 PM
Actually, I spoke too soon. Now at least I get a video track, so I thought I was good to go, but it's nothing but black! Oh well.
Marquat wrote on 9/20/2004, 1:05 AM
Laurence,

I just tried this with VirtualDub 1.5.10, and it is very easy to input a DivX file to VirtualDub and output an UncompressedVideo.AVI, which can then be edited in Vegas. The audio was out-of-sync so I had to export the UncompressedAudio.WAV in a second step and insert this in place of the bad audio track in Vegas.

1. Open DivXVideo.AVI in VirtualDub.
[check your settings]
Video->Compression = (Uncompressed RGB)
Video->Full processing mode
Audio->Compression = <No compression (PCM)>
Audio->Full processing mode
2. File->Save as AVI
[if necessary, i.e. if your audio is out-of-sync like mine was]
3. File->Save WAV

I didn't try erratic's method in the thread linked by Spot, but I am sure that works, too.
erratic wrote on 9/20/2004, 10:29 AM
So far ffdshow has worked for me, but there are many flavors of divx and xvid and I'm sure I haven't tried all of them. So if ffdshow fails then converting divx to avi is the easiest solution. Instead of uncompressed I would recommend HuffYUV compression. It's lossless so you won't lose quality, but the avi files will be smaller. There's a free HuffYUV codec available, but ffdshow also includes HuffYUV compression (for decompression you have to enable it in ffdshow's VFW Configuration). Of course, if you have plenty of disk space you can use uncompressed if you prefer.
Laurence wrote on 9/20/2004, 11:35 AM
VirtualDub worked. Audio was in sync as well. Funny thing is I think it used the ffdshow codecs. The ffdshow codec thing is pretty cool though. I'm glad I checked it out first.
erratic wrote on 9/20/2004, 12:04 PM
Yes, VirtualDub will use ffdshow's VFW interface, so the question is:
Why are the frames black in Vegas and not in VirtualDub?

I can't answer that question, but keep ffdshow installed.
It can decompress many types of video so it could be useful later.
It can also be used for compression (many formats available).
divxcodecs wrote on 9/21/2004, 7:16 PM
Recently I got some xvid encoded (encoded with one of the later beta version -- one of koepi's binary releases before the proper release of v1.0) files from a client who wanted me to edit them down to montage scenes. Anyway, despite having the proper codecs installed, Vegas 5.0a didn't want to load the video. So, what I did was change the FourCC code from XVID to DIVX and now they load just fine (in case you didn't know, the several popular flavors of Mpeg-4 codecs can decode videos that were encoded with one of the others. e.g., XviD can decode DivX or Div3)

If you wanna try it, you can download it here (first link):
http://www.divxcodecs.com/codecs.html

good luck!
-dcdx
dyer010 wrote on 10/18/2004, 8:17 PM
ok i took your advise and now i can edit and load the video but i still here no sound at all the audio is dolby 5.1 can vegas 5.0 edit dolby and if so what do i need to do now to make it happen