I am just beginning to use Vegas Movie Studio (Ver 10) - I used Pinnacle software in the past but have been ignoring my videos for a couple years so this is pretty much starting from scratch.
For my first project, I was trying to edit a small video for my dad. He used a Flip videocamera (one of the 1st ones - not HD, only 60 minutes and creates AVI files). When I import an AVI into my project, it takes a lot of time "building peaks". I did a little reasearch and this is supposed to be reading the audio and making the graphical display info for it. It takes an inordinate about of time to do this (22 second clip takes nearly 4 minutes to process). When it is finished, I dragged the clip to the timeline and dropped it on the "Video" line which works great for the video, but the "Voice" line immediately below it does not show any waveform for the audio and is just a straight line. Audio does not play and if I render the clip, there is no audio.
Opening the same file in Sound Forge Audio Studio 10.0 (which came with the Vegas package), the sound plays just fine. It shows the audio is Microsoft ADPCM, Audio sample rate 44,100,Audio bit rate 22,179 bytes/second, Audio bit depth 16 bit, Audio channels 1 (Mono)
I tried using VirtualDub to rewrite the AVI file in case it was just a bug in the Flip files - no change to the problem.
Is this a common problem? Am I just doing something wrong? Is there a workaround? Very frustrating for my first attempt with this software!
For my first project, I was trying to edit a small video for my dad. He used a Flip videocamera (one of the 1st ones - not HD, only 60 minutes and creates AVI files). When I import an AVI into my project, it takes a lot of time "building peaks". I did a little reasearch and this is supposed to be reading the audio and making the graphical display info for it. It takes an inordinate about of time to do this (22 second clip takes nearly 4 minutes to process). When it is finished, I dragged the clip to the timeline and dropped it on the "Video" line which works great for the video, but the "Voice" line immediately below it does not show any waveform for the audio and is just a straight line. Audio does not play and if I render the clip, there is no audio.
Opening the same file in Sound Forge Audio Studio 10.0 (which came with the Vegas package), the sound plays just fine. It shows the audio is Microsoft ADPCM, Audio sample rate 44,100,Audio bit rate 22,179 bytes/second, Audio bit depth 16 bit, Audio channels 1 (Mono)
I tried using VirtualDub to rewrite the AVI file in case it was just a bug in the Flip files - no change to the problem.
Is this a common problem? Am I just doing something wrong? Is there a workaround? Very frustrating for my first attempt with this software!