Importing MPEG

Prujam wrote on 5/5/2002, 3:05 PM
I am extremely new to Vegas Video, I run 2.0h. I am not sure if this answer is somewhere and I can't find it, but I have been searching for two hours now...

I have an MPEG that I need to bring into Vegas Video and am not sure how to do that. When I click on Open File and select that file, it asks me to make sure the file exists or that I have access to it. It was a Read Only file, but I unchecked that and I still get the same error message. The file is playable in Media Player. What can I do to convert it into Vegas Video so that I can add music to it? HELP!

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 5/5/2002, 6:39 PM
In order to work with MPEG files you first need to register the MPEG plug in. There could be other reasons you're having trouble but this is a common one. You should have seen a window saying as much. If you don't, then locate any MPEG file, even a audio only file and see if you can drag that to the timeline. If so, try to render with any MPEG template and the registration window should pop up. Once registered, you should have no problem working with MPEG files. Further note every once in awhile some MPEG may have been encoded in some odd codec and while it may play in media player or some other player it won't open in Vegas. I run into that every once in awhile. You could use some utility to first convert to AVI.
Prujam wrote on 5/6/2002, 9:25 PM
Any idea how to convert to AVI?
BillyBoy wrote on 5/6/2002, 11:45 PM
If the file is a video, VirtualDub (free) would be a good choice. It can convert most MPEG's into AVI. And its nice to have anyway since it can do a few things VV3 can't.
jeffy82 wrote on 5/7/2002, 3:12 AM
PRUJAM
It sounds like you are trying to open an MPEG file from CD. If so, you shouldn't have been able to remove the "Read-only" attribute, since CDRoms (short of using DirectCD or similar) are READ ONLY.

Best bet is to copy that MPEG file to your hard drive first. Keep in mind, that when you open a file in Vegas, it immediately creates a *.sfv file of the same name IN THE SAME DIRECTORY that the Mpeg was in. So, my guess is that if the MPEG file was on CDROM or similar READ ONLY Medium, Vegas wouldn't have been able to write that *.sfv file to that same directory, and therefore gave you that error message.

BILLYBOY
I don't mean to correct you, but rather clarify that Virtual Dub WILL open MPEG1 Video files, the kind found on Video CDS (VCDs), however, it DOES NOT open MPEG2 video files directly, these are the kind found on DVDs. I agree that VD is great to have anyway for AVI or DV video files, since the filters are unmatched by any video editing software package, not to mention the fact that it's FREE.

True, it can be done with frameserving, but that can get complicated. FLASKMPEG (free) is more appropriate for converting from MPEG2 to AVI.

Hope this helps.

Jeffy82