help getting mpg2 and .mov into movie studio

seanfl wrote on 4/13/2007, 2:20 PM

Good afternoon

I have the full version of vegas and am sending some media to a person that has movie studio. I'm exporting an mpeg 2 file, and have tried it with a few different options. He can't open them on his computer / vegas combination. The interesting thing is I can't get them to play on my new machine with windows media, although they WILL work inside vegas. Incidentally, they play fine on my older machine with windows media. So I'm guessing it's a missing codec issue that is preventing movie studio or Vegas from working correctly.

Where would you start (are there some open source codecs that will work?).

He's having the same issue with a .mov file that I created on a mac. His won't import it, mine will import it fine. We also tried mpg 4 and his didn't like that either.

any suggestions are appreciated.

Sean
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smallanditalian5 wrote on 4/14/2007, 7:20 PM

From what I am seeing, you and your friend are most definitely missing the MPEG-2 codec on the computers that don't play the files. I don't know why it isn't working in his version of Vegas, but I don't think that WMP plays MPEG-2 files natively. You have the full VMS, which does natively play pretty much every type of file in existence. You can download the codec for MPEG-2 (use Google) but I don't know if that will help with Vegas Studio. Personally, I think it would be better just to export to AVI- it's sharper, but it's bigger. Your friend could also get a converter to convert it to a format that Studio will play. I'd suggest Xillisoft for this. I think you are having the same problem with the .mov and MPEG-4. Windows will not play MOV files without Quicktime and again, MPEG-4 is not a native file format. Again, convert it or get the codec.

Hope this helps, I've had the same kind of problems and I know how frustrating it is with all of the different formats out there.

-AJ