Help, missing audio track on .avi files

DWhitevidman wrote on 8/16/2009, 11:10 AM
Vegas user for 4 years, but not a bug geek yet. I'm using 8.0 Pro now for about a year and went to capture some video files from camera. Vegas wouldn't recognize the camera, so I gave up trouble shooting and used Windows MovieMaker to capture the video from MiniDV tape.
The video and audio is fine and plays in MovieMaker and Media Player, but when I drag the file to the timeline in Vegas, no audio track appears.
This is driving me just a little bit crazy!
Also Vegas now does recognize the camera, but I don't want to have to re-capture 4 hours of video when I already have it on the computer in .avi files.
I searched and found someone with the same problem, but it was opposite, he had audio and no video. The answer was a codec problem. May the same be the problem with my issue?

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DWhitevidman wrote on 8/17/2009, 6:07 AM
Anyone have any ideas on this, please?
PerroneFord wrote on 8/17/2009, 6:09 AM
If Vegas doesn't recognize the audio, it's most likely a codec problem. Use the free program GSpot to determine what codec is needed.
DWhitevidman wrote on 8/17/2009, 6:41 AM
I loaded one of the files into Gspot, the video codec is "dvsd" but there isn't one seperately listed in the Audio section in the Codec box, yet in the Stat box in the audio section it says Codec(s) Installed.

What doesn't make sense to me is why the audio is there for seemingly every other application except for Vegas.
musicvid10 wrote on 8/17/2009, 6:50 AM
DV captured in Movie Maker is broken, perhaps on purpose.
Vegas is not as forgiving about opening these files as some players.
Only solution I know of is recapturing the footage in Vegas, or using a third-party app to re-encode your files.
DWhitevidman wrote on 8/17/2009, 6:52 AM
I loaded a previous file I captured a year or two ago and the in the Audio section on this file it shows the Codec "PCM Audio", and in the stat says "No Code Required"

I'm curious if this has anything to do with the recent "problem" files that I captured using Windows MovieMaker.

Still stymied. Isn't there a program I could load the .avi file into that I could then save as or convert to an Mpeg file? Would that help?
DWhitevidman wrote on 8/17/2009, 6:55 AM
Ok, ya, that seems to make sense. Thanks musicvid, I'll just have to recapture using Vegas, unless anyone has a suggestion about your 3rd party app suggestion to re-encode the files.
DWhitevidman wrote on 8/17/2009, 6:34 PM
Anyone else know what 3rd party to run the .avi files thru to get the audio to show up in Vegas?