EASY and smooth AVI fix especially for importing troublesome AVI files

zdogg wrote on 2/11/2018, 3:21 PM

Hello to the Community, first time poster in this particular Group.

I am a long time Magix user (Samplitude) and Vegas user as well, going back to version 4 (Sony).

The NORMAL AVI converter plugin (found in File IO folder/avi) for AVI files in Vegas is not very good, aviplug.dll. A replacement is found here,

http://originaldll.com/file/aviplug.dll/38545.html

and, of course, YMMV, (and moderators, this is not spam or virus, please check it out yourselves) but this has opened so many files for me, when Vegas will just hang otherwise. Download and replace the current file - aviplug.dll - with the new one (it uses the same name, so I always just rename old one with x in front - so you can always revert back - the old one will be about 600 odd bytes, and the new one 1152 bytes).

NOTE, the when you update/upgrade VEGAS PRO, you will have to RENAME the older file again, (and hence the reason for my post, save you some grief) as Vegas update package will implant a new "old one" and your 1152 byte file will still be there but now just a (2) redundant version and not the default, so your files won't load as they did before until you RENAME again the 600 byte file.

Hope this saves someone some headaches!! It sure helped mine...Cheers.

 

Comments

Musicvid wrote on 2/11/2018, 3:28 PM

this has opened so many files for me, when Vegas will just hang otherwise.

Interesting .But you left out the most relevant part.

WHICH files and formats does your plugin open that Vegas does not open natively??

And in which versions of Vegas?

 

zdogg wrote on 2/11/2018, 3:37 PM

The ones I have problems with are AVI files, which is, as I understand, a "wrapper" format for Windows that could be housing any one of a few different codecs, I think mine would be Mpeg2 files mostly, which one would think would not cause Vegas any problems. AVI conficts have always been there for VEGAS users, so not version specific. This is a quick fix that can work, and if not, you lose zero, and you just can rename your old aviplug.dll back to original if it doesn't. But for me, always works.

 

zdogg wrote on 2/11/2018, 3:47 PM

I had search long and hard for a "solution" to the AVI conundrum, and you can find lots of threads in Creative Cow and here probably as well, and most of those are saying get this or that converter program and convert to MPEG-4 files and such, when there really isn't a need, via this "quick fix." Try it - you'll like it.

Musicvid wrote on 2/11/2018, 3:48 PM

It's a good story, but we would hope to see MediaInfo and Vegas properties, sample files, and Vegas versions to be able to test this for ourselves. Is the file fully Directshow compatible? Since it says for xp, it may still be able to open mci or quartz era files, but why?

zdogg wrote on 2/11/2018, 4:15 PM

Dude, I'm no scientist, this is a tip, not a project for me...... if you have AVI problems, try it, otherwise, forget it. It's not a tough thing to do either way, takes two minutes, literally.

 

Musicvid wrote on 2/11/2018, 6:38 PM

Nah, I vaguely recall some problems with that dll around Vegas 9, but nothing relating to file handling. Thanks for the tip though, if you ever get around to documenting it, that would be great.