Using Flash exported AVI's.... wont work in Vegas

Jarred Land wrote on 5/10/2003, 3:36 PM

Hey, I export a simple flash movie to an AVI. When I play the avi in windows media, it works fine, but when I import it in to Vegas to use, it only shows the first frame, and wont play or preview the clip.. am i doing something wrong?

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kameronj wrote on 5/11/2003, 12:59 PM

probably the codec used to make the AVI convert.

It may be worth getting another converter - convert the AVI to MPEG - or some other format...then bring it in to VV.

I had a similiar issue with one clip I tried to bring in. It played fine in the media player - but just wouldn't open in VV until I reconverted it.

Hope that helps.

Steve672 wrote on 5/11/2003, 2:40 PM

I am not sure if this will help you but there are 2 types of AVI files. Type I and II. I know that some apllications will open one and not the other. There is a freeware called GSPOT find it here: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/gspot.html that will tell you which type of AVI file you have. Check the two files, the one that opens and the one that doesn't in Vegas and see if they are different. Hope this helps.

rique wrote on 5/11/2003, 5:06 PM

I haven't had any trouble exporting uncompressed avi from Flash 5 and bringing it into Vegas 4. I haven't tried all the avi codec options Flash give you.

You can also try exporting your Flash movie as a png image sequence and then importing the images into Vegas.

Jarred Land wrote on 5/27/2003, 3:56 PM

thanks rique that seemed to work for me (the image sequence)

Also, i imported the flash uncompressed movie inot windows movie maker (yikes!) and exported it as a wmv and it worked fine, but was waaaaaaaay too much work.

thanks everyone!