Help, had to reformat, kept my .vegs, but the media clips are having problems

twinz wrote on 8/17/2004, 3:07 AM

Hi, I just had to reformat and was workign on a movie

Luckily I saved all of my clips and my .vegs on another partition, however after I reinstalled windows and vegas, I found that only my title and my audio was working , all of the video clips had "invalid streams' or vegas could not find them, how can I fix this problem. I dont want to have to redo my entire movie b/c of this :/

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stormstereo wrote on 8/17/2004, 3:17 AM

If the video files are reported to be invalid you probably don't have the right codec(s) installed to play them back. Are they anything else than DV AVI's? Get the right codecs and try again.

If, when opening a veg-file, Vegas can't find your clips they are probably not located exactly where they were before you formatted. It's easily solved though. Vegas asks you through a dialogue to tell it where they are located. Just point Vegas into the right folder(s) and it'll find them.

Best/Tommy

twinz wrote on 8/17/2004, 10:16 AM

I moved all of my video files so that vegas would run the the re-locator and it did, but I sitll have the same problem.

I can watch the videos just fine outside of vegas

Maybe it is because this time I'm using the k-lite codec pack instead of installing each codec seperately.

stormstereo wrote on 8/19/2004, 2:40 PM

It could be the k-lite pack yes. I've always tried to stear clear of all those "hobbyist" codecs and stick with straight DV AVI from my camera and always render out to "professional" formats.

Just recently I've been experimenting with DivX and Xvid AVI's and already I have problems using them on the timeline. Then again, why use heavily compressed files on the timeline when the quality suffers a la grande?

Best/Tommy