problems w/ avi's

Scurry wrote on 11/5/2004, 6:00 PM

I have the demo of movie studio 4.0 and was really liking it more and more and then all of a sudden it will not reconize avis. Maybe I accidentally deleted something? It originally was working, I tried reinstally and it didnt help. When I drag the clip inot the tiome line only audio shows up.

Thanks for and help,
-Sean

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Scurry wrote on 11/7/2004, 8:48 AM

anyone?

gogiants wrote on 11/7/2004, 1:24 PM

Is it safe to assume that the .avi's that are not currently being recognized are the same .avi files that were recognized in the past?

If so, then maybe something else you installed has somehow co-opted the codec settings that were in place before. Have you installed any other editing tools, media viewer programs, etc. before this problem started showing up?

I know that's not a direct help, and no doubt you've thought of some/all of these...

ritsmer wrote on 11/7/2004, 11:33 PM

I had the same problems (only able to add the soundtrack to the timeline - the video part is just "not existing") after having rebuilt my machine from scratch. Obviously before the rebuild MS had used some AVI-codec I had downloaded with another products trial -

I decided for the MS because of its features and its rock-stability (compared to some others) and in order to get a well defined soloution I bought the Morgan AVI codec from http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/.
They have a trial.

As AVI can be many things also see the article: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,23168,00.asp
to see what "hides" inside the AVI's You are working with.

csan wrote on 11/8/2004, 6:30 AM

Are these avi's from a digital still camera? My still camera takes movies in MJPEG format and these show up as avi files. If I place them in the timeline only the sound portion is picked up but no video. If this is the case you need to convert them to avis using windows movie maker or virtualdub for example.