I am green to Sony Vegas and video versions. I just got it and just learned this week that a .avi file is what they call a container. Up until then, I was baffled why I could read certain .avi files and not others, anyway...

I am having trouble with a .avi container. I am trying to drag-n-drop a .avi file onto the timeline and I am unable to do so. I tried converting the .avi to mpg and then drag-n-drop but still had trouble.

I did an ffmpeg -i fileName.avi and it reported to me that the video format is mpeg4 and the audio format was mp3. Is there some settings that I need to set? Or perhaps a certain video/audio encoded data that Vegas reads?

Please direct me. Thank you.