Opening in vegas DV Video without codec

dirtynbl wrote on 1/7/2004, 10:45 AM
I used to own a Pinnacle DV500 a few years back and used their DV2 Codec I believe when rendering a lot of old footage. Since then I have sold the card and moved on, but in revisiting this footage I find that I lack the footage to load the video in Vegas or view in Win. Meida Player. Is there any way to (since this is a hybrid codec requiring the card to be installed) view this footage or convert it to another format?

I tried first in the Pinnacle forums, but recieved no reply. SOrry, to bring it here, but everyone here is the best.

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SonyEPM wrote on 1/7/2004, 11:06 AM
You might be able to hunt around in the Pinnacle support site and download the codec by itself. Maybe search their forums first ( I'd imagine others have run into this issue).
dirtynbl wrote on 1/7/2004, 12:21 PM
yeah...i kicked around their forums last night for a few hours and found that the codec was hybrid which requires the DV500 card to be present to install the codec, and I no longer have the card. I tried posting in their forum, but after half hour of trying get a post to stick I gave up and thought I'd ask the Vegas wizards.
filmy wrote on 1/8/2004, 12:48 AM
A few ways -

You can download the web install, it is huge but you should be able to get the needed codec - http://www.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/dv500_40_free_webinstall.exe

If you want a nice little utiltity to convert between formats that also allows for Time Code extraction and 'offline' res TC insertion check out the DV Convertor at http://www.baobab.net/dvconvinfo.html. Free 30 day trial.

Also, Focus makes a DV Convertor as well. This used to be free for 'non-commercial" use but it seems to have changed. http://www.focusinfo.com/products/firestore/dvconversionsuite/dvsc.html
Erni wrote on 1/8/2004, 12:23 PM
Find the codec here http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support/display.asp?FileID=1155&ProductID=432

Cheers. Erni.
dirtynbl wrote on 1/8/2004, 11:26 PM
so great. thank you all so much!