I have been unable to use any of my video content in Vegas whatsoever. I have done an enormous amount of video editing with VirtualDub and the fact that the program is not meant to do video editing makes the task a bit more difficult, hence my reason for purchasing Vegas.
My videos are mostly in XviD or DivX 5, and not a single one will load in Vegas 5.0b. I have gone through the forums and uninstalled all the codecs, reinstalled XviD (my favorite of the two for encoding) and still no go. FFDShow also did not fix the problem. I have tried splitting my video into two files, an AVI just for the video and a WAV of the VBR/CBR LameMP3 audio. The audio has worked all along though, and this only caused me to waste drive space, not solve anything.
I've tried all combinations of "Ignore third party DV codecs", "Use Microsoft DV codec" and "Strictly conform to AVI2 specification", just for the heck of it and still no go... If I go to properties on the video file, it says "(stream offline)".
These files all display beautifully in Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, BS Player, etc. as well as being fully editable in VirtualDub and NanDub.
Here is a sample AVI file (DVD rip of a documentary I own):
http://memso.net/media/xvidtest.avi (2.77MB, 15 sec)
The only way I've been able to successfully load anything into Vegas is to save it as an uncompressed AVI file, which is rediculous to have to do when using a professional video editing suite.
Also, whenever I start the program I always get this error:
"An error occured starting Vegas. The reason for the error could not be determined."
Might this be related to the problem? Why would I get this error?
Thanks!
My videos are mostly in XviD or DivX 5, and not a single one will load in Vegas 5.0b. I have gone through the forums and uninstalled all the codecs, reinstalled XviD (my favorite of the two for encoding) and still no go. FFDShow also did not fix the problem. I have tried splitting my video into two files, an AVI just for the video and a WAV of the VBR/CBR LameMP3 audio. The audio has worked all along though, and this only caused me to waste drive space, not solve anything.
I've tried all combinations of "Ignore third party DV codecs", "Use Microsoft DV codec" and "Strictly conform to AVI2 specification", just for the heck of it and still no go... If I go to properties on the video file, it says "(stream offline)".
These files all display beautifully in Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, BS Player, etc. as well as being fully editable in VirtualDub and NanDub.
Here is a sample AVI file (DVD rip of a documentary I own):
http://memso.net/media/xvidtest.avi (2.77MB, 15 sec)
The only way I've been able to successfully load anything into Vegas is to save it as an uncompressed AVI file, which is rediculous to have to do when using a professional video editing suite.
Also, whenever I start the program I always get this error:
"An error occured starting Vegas. The reason for the error could not be determined."
Might this be related to the problem? Why would I get this error?
Thanks!