How to see an analogue captured clip in Vegas

PeterWright wrote on 10/31/2006, 3:50 PM
Someone has given me some .avi clips on a hard drive. All he knew about them was they were captured from analogue with a "capture card". This makes me think they're MJPEG, so I thought no worries, I have the Morgan Multimedia Codec.

Anyway, although they play fine in Windows Media Player, Vegas only recognises the audio, not the vision.

Under Properties / Type, Vegas reports: Video for Windows.

So it looks like I need more info to find out which codec is needed - how do I find this out please?

- and how is it that WMP can show the vision but Vegas can't?

Comments

ScottW wrote on 10/31/2006, 4:16 PM
Download a copy of GSpot - it will tell you what's in it and whether you have a codec for it.
PeterWright wrote on 10/31/2006, 9:00 PM
Thanks Scott - I did that, and it tells me it's a YUV packed 4:2:2 codec called YUY2, and that it's compressed using a very simple method and I won't need a codec - "all the necessary software is already built into the OS"

This may be so for Media Player, but not for Vegas. Any ideas?

farss wrote on 10/31/2006, 9:03 PM
Have you tried turning off 'ignore third party codecs' in Vegas.
PeterWright wrote on 10/31/2006, 9:39 PM
No, I hadn't tried that Bob - I've had that preference "nailed" shut since Vegas Video 3!!

Anyway - I tried it and it didn't change things, but I've just converted the clips to DV using Video Cleaner and the good news is I can now see the video!!

- the bad news is it had to scale it up from 320 x 240 and it looks pretty terrible.

Thanks

Peter
jaegersing wrote on 11/1/2006, 1:55 AM
Hi Peter. I had same thing last week, someone had captured video through a USB A/D converter device instead of firewire (the original source was miniDV!) and Vegas couldn't see the video. I eventually ran it through Virtualdub and exported as uncompressed just to get something high quality that Vegas could work with. Whatever happened to "format agnostic" that was often touted for Vegas?

Riochard Hunter
PeterWright wrote on 11/1/2006, 2:04 AM
Yes Richard - the thing I'm still hoping for enlightenment on from one of our PC experts is .... what is it that Media Player has access to that Vegas doesn't ...... and Why?
Guy Bruner wrote on 11/1/2006, 5:45 AM
Have you tried HUFYUV? Sounds like you were trying to view it in DV and its not in that format.