RCA SmallWonder (Like Flip) - clips into Vegas

smhontz wrote on 7/9/2007, 5:07 PM

I just bought an RCA Small Wonder camera - it's a lot like the Flip Video camera mentioned in another thread. I got this over the Flip, though, because it has a slot to stick a memory card in. Figured this would be a cheap/fun video camera to take on vacation and not worry too much if it gets ruined.

Now I'm trying to bring the clips into Vegas. The clips are in XVid AVI format. I can drag them to the computer, and Windows Media Player will play them. Windows Movie Maker can import them and use them. But Vegas 7.0e cannot. It says "Stream attributes could not be determined."

Did some searching thru other threads, and saw that someone suggested downloading the Divx player and codec. Did that, still no joy. Someone else suggested using a FourCC changer to make sure it read "DIVX". It already did.

Any other ideas? It just torques me when WMP and MovieMaker can deal with a file and Vegas can't.

Comments

busterkeaton wrote on 7/9/2007, 8:24 PM

Xvid is not Divx. It's also not a format used by professional editors.

Try here http://www.xvid.org/

smhontz wrote on 7/10/2007, 8:55 PM

Thanks for the tip. Alas, it did not help. Tried some of the other tips found in the forum, and was able to get the video but no audio.

I don't really care if it's a format used by professional editors or not - I figure my video editing software just ought to deal with it if I get the right codecs loaded. The "not used by professional editors" excuse is the same reason the FCP snobs give for why FCP can't use MP3s on the timeline. "Real pros would never use MP3 files, blah blah". I just want to slap any kind of file up there and have it WORK. No excuses. I want to decide whether to use something in my project, not have it limited by my NLE.

birdcat wrote on 7/12/2007, 5:54 AM

I know it's an extra step but you could take the clips into movie maker and export out as standard AVI.

I do this with some MPEG-1 clips I want to use.