video only being detected as audio file

hax111 wrote on 6/23/2004, 10:08 PM

Ok, everytime i drag my video into the timeline it always comes out detected as an audio and also when i highlight my video file form the explorer, at the bottom it says: Video - stream attributes could not be determined. HELP PLZ!

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Spot|DSE wrote on 6/23/2004, 10:22 PM

This normally suggests you've imported a video stream that you don't have a codec installed for, or that you're importing a vid that is a proprietary codec that Vegas can't read. Where did you capture/acquire the media?

hax111 wrote on 6/23/2004, 10:37 PM

I made it using a program called Videomach that turned a series of pictures into a clip, encoded the file using XviD codec, and saved it as an .avi file. Now Vegas can't detect it as a video file :(

Spot|DSE wrote on 6/23/2004, 10:38 PM

That's why....I haven't tried Xvid, but seem to recall others have had issues with it too. Why not render uncompressed, or as a sequential targa, png, or tif format? That should open.

erratic wrote on 6/24/2004, 8:24 AM

Well, as I wrote in this thread Vegas can open XviD if you install ffdshow, but of course you shouldn't use XviD if you still need to edit your avi file. Better take Spot's advice in that case.