Movie Studio Platinum 12 won't load in .avi

Taemond wrote on 1/31/2014, 7:51 PM
Hi everyone. I've just installed Movie Studio Platinum 12 and found it will not load in .avi files. It just gives me a red cancel/cross icon on my cursor without any error messages at all. When I try to drop avi's in from outside the movie studio browser it gives me the message "None of the files dropped on Movie Studio Platinum could be opened."

I have googled the problem but found only 2 solutions. One was to convert the avi's into another format before importing them into vegas. However this seems completely unnecessary as avi isn't exactly an uncommon format. The second was to install some formats. I didn't bother trying k-lite due to many people stating how it can cause more problems than it solves. The other was x264vfw however this did nothing.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to make movie studio load in avi's?

Thanks in advance.

Comments

GOCYCLE wrote on 1/31/2014, 9:43 PM
.AVI files are wrappers. So, they can contain CODECS that can not be unwrapped or are incompatible. I would suggest converting them to MP4 files or .264 via many of the free converters. This is a common issue with all editing softwares and is not a bug.
MarcoMilano wrote on 2/1/2014, 4:15 PM
Hi, my VMSP 9 crashes while trying to load an hi-def file, 1980x1020 MPEG4

Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0
Version 9.0b (Build 92)
Exception 0xC0000094 (integer divide by zero) IP:0x33A76729
In Module 'mcmp4plug.dll' at Address 0x339A0000 + 0xD6729
Thread: VideoCache ID=0x294C Stack=0x6A9F000-0x6AA0000

The same file has no problem with the demo of Vegas Pro 12.

Could someone help? What should I do to fix it?

Many thanks
Marco
JohnnyRoy wrote on 2/2/2014, 6:48 AM
> "The second was to install some formats. I didn't bother trying k-lite due to many people stating how it can cause more problems than it solves."

Yes, you need to find the codec that this video needs. Download the utility call GSpot and drop the video on it. It will tell you what codec the video uses and if it's installed on your PC. Then just install that codec (usually from the manufacturer) and the video should play in Movie Studio.

BTW, you did the right thing by NOT installing the K-Lite Codec Pak. NEVER install a codec pak. It's like taking all of the pills in your medicine cabinet hoping one of them will cure you... one of them might... but the rest could kill you. ;-)

~jr