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TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/4/2004, 8:32 AM
We need more info, such as where di the AVI come from, what codec, etc.

I'm guessing it's a XVid or Divx, right? I'm not sure how to get these working, but within the past several weeks there havfe been lots of Divx questions. Try a search for Divx (if it is that).
nbkdiego wrote on 7/4/2004, 4:31 PM
Yes u are right , it is a movie that i made with xvid codec.
Im going to search , if u know more about it , plz post it.
Thanks.

nbkdiego
nbkdiego wrote on 7/4/2004, 5:07 PM
Well , i was reading about the codec issues , i have ffdshow installed and the codecs enabled.
Now Vegas load the audio track and the video also , but the video is black.
Some weird thing is that when Vegas was loading the video , the video track locks like was loading right (couse i saw the video image in the track) , then when i tried to play the movie , the audio was good but the video preview was black.
Any idea about it?

nbkdiego
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/4/2004, 6:41 PM
I belive it has something to do with keyframes. Vegas needs every frame to be a keyframe (or i frame for mpeg). anything else can cause this problem.

Maybe you could use virtualdub (www.virtualdub.org) to convert it to DV.
nbkdiego wrote on 7/5/2004, 10:19 AM
Ok , i have virtualdub installed , i'm trying different things but i dont know how change the video to DV.
Plz , give me some directions to use virtualdub.

Thanks a lot TheHappyFriar
erratic wrote on 7/5/2004, 10:50 AM
Converting xvid to DV is not easy because there's usually an aspect ratio difference. XviD often has square pixels and a weird resolution. I suggest you use VirtualDub to create a new avi file but this time use a different codec for compression.

- Open your xvid file in VirtualDub.
- Select Video -> Compression: now vdub will list all VFW codecs installed on your system.
- You could use Uncompressed RGB but this will create a huge avi file, so if you don't have a lot of disk space you should select a codec.
- MJPEG is usually pretty good. If you don't have an MJPEG codec, you can select the ffdshow Video Codec and click on Configure. Then choose a codec from the Encoder drop-down list. Good choices are MJPEG and HuffYUV. The latter will create significantly bigger files than MJPEG but you won't lose any quality.
- Then you will also have to enable this codec (MJPEG or HuffYUV) in ffdshow's Decoder settings (VFW configuration).

After configuring the codec save a new avi with VirtualDub. This new avi will consist of keyframes only, so Vegas should be able to open it correctly.
Lawrence wrote on 7/5/2004, 11:47 AM
Go to the net and download he free version of dvix.
Installed it and you show be able to playback on Vegas your dvix video.