Importing large AVI files.

FlyBoy wrote on 4/1/2008, 6:55 PM
Hello all,

I'm kinda new to Vegas and having a problem importing large AVI files. Anything larger than 2 gigs and Vegas pro 8.0 hangs. The really funny thing is if I import them into Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8, I have no problem. I am using FRAPs (a utility to capture game footage) to capture the AVIs that I am trying to import into Vegas Pro 8.0. It seems strange that Sony's flag ship product hangs on this and the lesser Movie Studio Platinum handles them fine.

Any one have any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,
Lynn

Comments

rmack350 wrote on 4/1/2008, 8:56 PM
Well, normally I'd say that this is because your hard drive is formatted as FAT32 instead of NTFS.

I take it you're using the same hard drive in both cases?

Rob Mack
rs170a wrote on 4/2/2008, 6:39 AM
I agree with Rob about the drive format being the most likely problem.
I've dropped 2 hr. clips (almost 30 gigs) on a Vegas timeline without problems.

Mike
bStro wrote on 4/2/2008, 7:41 AM
Wouldn't hurt to give some info about the files in question -- specifically, framesize and codec? I don't know much about FRAPs, but I believe it uses a propriety codec by default? That codec might be giving Vegas fits.

I'm curious, too, why VP8 would stumble while VMS8 is okay with the files. Unless you're referring to two different machines, in which case there could any number of hardware and system considerations involved.

Rob
Chienworks wrote on 4/2/2008, 11:02 AM
Also if these are two different machines then they might have different codecs installed on each.

Vegas has also been known to not pick up codecs. It's possible that Vegas Pro was installed first, then the FRAP codec and Pro never noticed, then Vegas Studio installed later and it did see the FRAP codec.

FAT32's limitation is 4GB, not 2GB, so i highly doubt this is a disk format problem. However, Type 1 AVI files have some weirdnesses if they're over 1GB. Type 2 can be nearly any size without trouble. Perhaps the Studio version has some newer code in it to help handle consumer AVI type 1 codecs better and the Pro version doesn't yet.
FlyBoy wrote on 4/3/2008, 6:10 PM
Thanks for all of the quick replies.

It does appear to be Fraps. I think it dumps out an AVI about ever 4 gigs, so the Fat32 limitation won't be violated. My sata drive is NTFS. I later was able to load two of the 4 gig AVIs, but not the first one I tried. I also must have loaded one of the "good" one's into Vegas Studio and hmmmm assumed it was a problem with Vegas Pro :(

Never, ever assume.........
Any way, I got around it by by just shooting clips in Fraps and not letting them get to big.

Thanks for all the help.
Lynn