importing M4S2 digicam files into Vegas 8 ?

john-beale wrote on 9/2/2008, 1:09 PM
A client has given me some AVI files she'd like assembled into a DVD. I can import them into Vegas 8, but they show up as audio only. The codec tool "GSpot v2.70a" says the following about these AVI files:

Video: M4S2 Compliant MPEG-4 v2 Simple Profile 29.970 fps 640x480
Audio: 0x0011 (DVI ADPCM) 44100 Hz 177 kb/s (1 chnl)
User Data / Metadata: CASIO EX-S600

(The Casio EXILIM EX-S600 is a pocket digicam, I guess it does video clips too.)

The Videolan VLC player can play this AVI ok, audio & video. BUT, it has trouble transcoding it to a new file. I get errors unless I specify a frame rate (30 or 29.97 fps), then it does generate a MP4 file, but Vegas cannot import the transcoded MP4 at all ("None of the files dropped on Vegas Pro could be opened.")

Needless to say, all this is on a deadline... anyone know an easy way to get this video into Vegas? Short of pointing my camera at the screen as it plays?

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john-beale wrote on 9/2/2008, 1:46 PM
Well, I got it to work by transcoding to MPEG1 format instead. I used a command line something like

vlc -I dummy -vvv input.avi --sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp1v,vb=3072,scale=1,fps=29.97,acodec=mpga,ab=512,channels=1}:standard{access="file",mux="mpeg1",dst="output.mpg"}