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musicvid10 wrote on 10/12/2015, 1:27 PM
Vegas has two h264 codecs, and imports compliant streams just fine.
Post complete MediaInfo data for your source, and we'll figger out what's going on.
;?)

kirkdickinson wrote on 10/12/2015, 1:34 PM
Well.... How do I find complete MediaInfo?

This is a file recorded in MOV on my Phantom III Professional. I had a corrupt video and used DJI's djifix tool to recover the video. It outputs the fixed file as h264, but Vegas Doens't like it. The file plays well in VLC Media player.
kirkdickinson wrote on 10/12/2015, 1:37 PM
VLC Media player says:

Type: Video
Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (h264)
Resolution: 3840x2160
Frame Rate: 29.970029
Decoded format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV
musicvid10 wrote on 10/12/2015, 5:26 PM
MediaInfo is a utility that you download from Sourceforge.
Need complete file properties, including audio if present!
kirkdickinson wrote on 10/13/2015, 11:40 AM
General
Complete name : G:\DJI Footage\DJI_0005-repaired.h264
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
File size : 3.53 GiB
Overall bit rate mode : Variable

Video
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=8
Bit rate mode : Variable
Maximum bit rate : 60.0 Mbps
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Bliss Video Productions wrote on 10/13/2015, 12:31 PM
So this is 4K footage?
Warper wrote on 10/14/2015, 3:41 AM
Sony Vegas does not work with elementary streams like .h264
In order to use video you have to put elementary stream in container like .mp4, .mts, .m2ts
You can do it with TxMuxer, for example.
musicvid10 wrote on 10/14/2015, 4:19 AM
Do you mean TSMuxer?
kirkdickinson wrote on 10/15/2015, 10:23 AM
Yes, it is 4K from DJI Phantom III Pro
kirkdickinson wrote on 10/15/2015, 10:26 AM
OK, thanks. Seems like I remember in the old days with Sonic Foundry Vegas Video, you could dump any video format into Vegas and it just worked. I am always downloading codec packs, and converting, and muxing etc...
PeterDuke wrote on 10/15/2015, 10:51 PM
It is not the codec, it is the lack of a container.
kirkdickinson wrote on 10/22/2015, 12:47 PM
I don't understand all of that. If my players can all play it, why can't vegas edit it? Doesn't make sense to me.
Rob Franks wrote on 10/22/2015, 4:03 PM
"I don't understand all of that. If my players can all play it, why can't vegas edit it? Doesn't make sense to me. "

The players you have aren't following any licensing restrictions while Vegas does. If it is not in a valid container then Vegas will not recognize it.
musicvid10 wrote on 10/22/2015, 4:57 PM

Remux in Avidemux?

NormanPCN wrote on 10/22/2015, 7:33 PM
Vegas only understands a small subset of available containers and codec combinations. So while Vegas understands the mp4 container it only work with certain codecs within that container even though the container supports a larger list.

If with supported items the decoder can be finicky at times about the input. Just looking at the threads about the Sony PXW-X70 files not working in Vegas tells enough about this story.