Vegas Cant import/open AVI IJPG

ABPL wrote on 3/13/2015, 2:14 AM

Hello.

I recently created a timelapse from some photos I took. I want to edit the footage in Sony Vegas HD Platinum 11.0, but Vegas refuses to open the files.

I have tried installing a number of different Codecs (Xvid, VFWCodecs, and some others), but nothing has worked! The files were created using MenCoder under Ubuntu.

Here is the MediaInfo readout for the file I have:

General
Complete name : G:\USADriveTimelapse\xCountryTimelapse\D1_NY2V.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 9.26 GiB
Duration : 9mn 43s
Overall bit rate : 136 Mbps
Writing application : MEncoder 1.1-4.8
Writing library : MPlayer

Video
ID : 0
Format : JPEG
Codec ID : IJPG
Codec ID/Hint : Intergraph
Duration : 9mn 43s
Bit rate : 136 Mbps
Width : pixel0
Original width : 2 592 pixels
Height : pixel0
Original height : 1 944 pixels
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Bit depth : 8 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 9.26 GiB (100%)

I don't think conversion is a realistic option, as the file is 9.3 GB in size, and it is only one of ten such videos. I would rather not convert 100GB of video if I can avoid it.

And once I do find a Codec... do I just install the codec and then Sony Vegas suddenly will import the files? Or do I need to somehow update Sony Vegas/refer it to the Codec so it knows what to do.

Any help on how I can get this file into Vegas would be great. I really want to start editing!

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/13/2015, 7:41 AM

It's possible that the AVI container used doesn't properly register file sizes over 4GB. You may have to create shorter segments to get them down under that limit.

Is your original material individual JPG files? If so, simply load into Vegas using the Import Image Sequence function. There's no need to make the intermediate AVI file.

ABPL wrote on 3/15/2015, 7:08 PM

Thanks for the tip about the Image Import Sequence feature. I had no idea that existed.

I will need to make an intermediate file either way, as I don't want the video timeline littered with tens of thousands of photos once I go on to editing the video itself. However I will try using Sony Vegas to make the intermediate file, and then exporting right back into Vegas.

The Linux nerd in me would like to have a terminal-based solution, since I already use command line to resize and crop each image. But I think that your method of using Import Image Sequence will work great.

Thanks!

Chienworks wrote on 3/15/2015, 8:34 PM

The "import image sequence" function adds all the images into one single event and treats it the same as a video clip.