Flip Viedo Ultra does not work with Vegas Movie St

markwoodford wrote on 1/23/2008, 5:49 PM

I recently purchased a Flip Video Ultra, an cool little video camera that I can take anywhere.

Unfortuately I can't seem to use Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8.0c build 142 because
it thinks my Flip Video files are audio files. It plays back the audio fine but shows no video.

Ironically, the lowly Microsoft Movie Maker processes these files just fine although it is not very good software.

Flip Video Ultra files are mpeg4 - the decoder supplied by Flip Video is 3ivx.

I hope that Sony can learn to handle these new and exciting files, but I fear I might need to defect to Adobe soon. I don't think I can live with MS Movie Maker.

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/24/2008, 12:07 AM

That's the 'flip side' of a neat little camera... They don't advertise this, do they? You could convert the video file to avi using Movie Maker or SUPER, but that is time consuming.
Also try renaming the extension to mov and try and see if vegas recognizes it.

Kennymusicman wrote on 1/24/2008, 5:59 AM

Another option to consider is something like Klite codec pack. I have a cheap & nasty 5MP camera that is similar, but uses xvid. Klite got that working for me.

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mickbadal wrote on 1/25/2008, 4:50 AM

Also, using any camera that begins with a compressed format (like camcorders that record source as MPEG-2 to DVDs, or MPEG-4, etc.) means you start with a source that already has a loss of quality, and then you have further loss of quality after you edit and export. You're better off using a camera that records to an uncompressed format like avi, so your source is the best quality possible. Save conversion to a compressed format for the last step when you're ready to press your final media.

Possibly you're experienced in a/v and you already know what I'm talking about. But just in case you're not, I wanted to throw that tip out there ("pay forward" what was taught to me a year or so ago!)