editing with .AVI video

jferullo wrote on 3/26/2007, 9:44 PM

I have Vegas Movie Studio on my home computer - I have a new camera that shoots tapeless video -- I've loaded clips into my computer via USB conection in the DV-AVI format, and have dropped clips into Project Media area on Vegas. But Vegas WON'T let me drag-n-drop those clips into the timeline and edit them. It also won't let me preview the clips. Basically, I can't do anything with the clips at all, let alone build a movie and burn to DVD. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for help!!

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ScottW wrote on 3/27/2007, 6:37 AM

My first bet is the AVI file does not contain DV, but something else. Most of the tapeless cameras (assuming its a camcorder and not a camera) I've seen are using MPEG-2 or possibly DiVX. If it's a camera, then it's probably MJPEG.

I would start by downloading acopy of Gspot (just google it) and finding out what's really in the AVI file. Once you know that, report back here and folks can probably give you some specific suggestions for the codec you need to install for VMS to handle things.

--Scott

jferullo wrote on 3/27/2007, 9:46 AM

Thanks Scott -- I'll give this a try -- I have a vidoe cmaera called Supacam, and I think the media is in DiVX... I'll get back to the forum with more info.

jferullo wrote on 3/27/2007, 9:37 PM

I downloaded GSpot, which identified the video at AVI v1.0 and says "codecs are installed." So that may not be the problem. any other ideas? Thanks.

4eyes wrote on 3/28/2007, 4:58 AM

I've used this program to convert those type of files into a format that VMS can edit in.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html