Motion JPEG AVI?

newbie2vegas wrote on 12/9/2007, 8:46 AM

I just purchased a LCD Digital Photo Frame and I was trying to put video on it. It says it supports "Motion JPEG AVI", but the AVI that Sony Vegas Movie Studio does not play on it. Is the AVI format that Vegas Movie Studio renders different than Motion JPEG AVI? Or is there a setting I need to tweak when I render the video? I'm new to all of the various formats that are out there :-) Thanks for helping out.

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Eugenia wrote on 12/9/2007, 1:57 PM

AVI is a container format, not a video format. That's why inside an .avi you can have DivX and MotionJpeg and other formats. Vegas Platinum can not export in the Motion Jpeg kinds of .avi, so you will have to export in another kind of .avi, like a lossless format, and then use something like MediaCoder or FFMpeg to do the conversion to MJpeg.

Basically, you have to export to the lossless codec huffyuv, and then feed that file to ffmpeg this way: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/08/11/from-dvhdvavchd-to-ps3xbox360appletv/
There is currently no ffmpeg template for motionjpeg on that tutorial, but I can write one for you if you would like to follow that method.