Problem With Targa Import

yamaro wrote on 2/17/2005, 7:29 PM
Hello . I have some problem with Sony Vegas Movie 4. I cant import *.tga / *.targa files i dont know why. I just reinstaled program and doesnt work. Other files like *.jpg *.gif open fine but *.tga and *.targa not. I instaled new patch for SVM4 and same problem :(.

I Have this error :
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Warning: An error occurred while opening one or more files.
The file format plugin for the specified format was not properly initialized.
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File : G:\screenshoots\MyMovie\shoot0001.tga could not be opened .
File : G:\screenshoots\MyMovie\shoot0002.tga could not be opened .
File : G:\screenshoots\MyMovie\shoot0003.tga could not be opened .
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What is the problem? .... Thank you for help :(


My PC:
- Windows XP Sp2
- p4 2.8 ghz
- 768 DDR ram
- 120 GB HDD

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 2/17/2005, 8:01 PM
Where were the targa's created? I'm opening TGA just fine in Vegas Movie Studio4. You might also want to ask this in the Vegas Movie Studio forum.
I don't believe you need Quicktime installed to open .tga's on the timeline, so I'm wondering if you've got an odd or corrupt tga file set?
B_JM wrote on 2/18/2005, 1:42 AM
SOME targas created on a mac may have problems - rare though, but ive seen it .. also targas with some odd resolutions will sometimes slice the picture , but these will still open ..

vegas will work with top down or bottom up targas, compressed or non compressed ...

what application made these targas ?

QT is not needed - though you should have it installed ...


mbryant wrote on 3/14/2006, 12:15 PM
I know this thread is a year old, but it describes the error I'm getting.

In my case, I have 2 installations of Vegas on my machine: One Windows 2000, one XP home (SP2). I've worked with Windows 2000 for years; the XP2 was added to be able to do HDV capture.

Anyway - I have a project which I started in Windows 2000. It has a bunch of .tga images in it - nothing special; they were created from jpegs using "Photoimpact". Resolution mostly 768x576 (I work in PAL). Under Windows 2000 it works fine.. but under XP Vegas complains there is a missing plug-in. Photoimpact can open the files under either Windows 2000 or XP.

I really want to finish this project under XP, as I have quite a "clean" installation there; while Windows 2000 I use for other non-editing tasks. I have no idea how to fix this.

Any ideas?

Mark
plasmavideo wrote on 3/14/2006, 12:37 PM
Mark,

That's a really odd problem. I use PhotoImpact all the time with Vegas on XP without a problem. I usually use png files, but I don't recall any problems with sequential TGAs or regular TGAs not working, but I'll try it tonight with some PhotoImpact files.

However, I do remember an issue similar to this being brought up in another forum, perhaps the Sound Forge forum, where there was a problem in XP with file associations and Sound Forge not being able to open certain files. Whether or not this could in any way be related, I don't know, but it might be worth a shot searching for it.
mbryant wrote on 3/15/2006, 1:40 AM
Thanks.. I did some more searching... I found someone with the same error with Soundforge trying to access an .mp3 file.. and I found another Vegas post with the same error trying to use a tiff image in Vegas. In both cases the solution was to install Quicktime.

I didn't have Quicktime installed on the XP boot... but it is installed on the Windows 2000 boot which is working, so I installed on the XP one, it, and yes, it fixed the problem.

I'm not sure why Vegas requires Quicktime installation to use .tga and .tif files (while Photoimpact does not). But at least it is working.

And to be clear, my problem was with Vegas 6.0d.. not with "Movie Studio" (the original post was referring to Vegas Movie Studio).

Mark