Xvid

Widetrack wrote on 7/12/2011, 6:11 PM
Hi all,

A client wants me to re edit a video someone did for her. Could only open the audio in V10 on Win 7, so I ran gspot which told me it was done in Xvid, which I'd not heard of (can't blink in this biz).

I read a few things about it here but no definitive statement:

Will the XviD 1.3.2 codec from XviD.org cause me any problems?

Will it let me open, edit and render with a more sensible codec?

Thanks for any help.

Wt

Comments

Joe White wrote on 7/12/2011, 8:21 PM
Render it to another format then bring it into Vegas. Vegas has NO support for Xvid and DIVX.

It may work fine in Vegas untill it will all the sudden not work. Usually right before a deadline or when someone is watching over your shoulder.
johnmeyer wrote on 7/12/2011, 9:01 PM
Actually, it is easy to use Xvid and Divx video in Vegas. See my old post:

DivX support
Joe White wrote on 7/12/2011, 11:38 PM
Use it at your own peril. It is NOT and editing format and NOT supported by Sony. Make your life easier.
Widetrack wrote on 7/13/2011, 12:36 AM
Thanks for the pointers.

I got the Divx codec--and all the other stuff was inseparable, so I got it too. The divx control panelis pretty much different from what it must have been in 08 when that thread was new.

So I got a player thyat played the divx but had no suggestion of being interested in converting it in any way. So I got the Avic 100 FOurcc converter that worked very simply. It, like gspot, told me I have a Xvid file and let me type in Divx to make the change. Since Vegas 7 (I'm using a backup machine and software to work with this stuff) wouldn't play the file.

After that, Vegas loaded the file, but was very reluctant to play it,or do anything, for that matter, and locked up after loading the file. After a few tries, I got it to load and not lock, and went to render it as a plain AVI--I hope.

It will take another hour and I'm going to sleep. will check it in the morning and report what it did.

Thnax again for the info
johnmeyer wrote on 7/13/2011, 8:13 AM
Use it at your own peril. It is NOT and editing format and NOT supported by Sony. Make your life easier.The OP said, in the original post: "A client wants me to re edit a video someone did for her." Thus, he doesn't have a choice but to use the video. He has to figure out a way to deal with it. Therefore, I am trying to help him do the job, and the job can only be done by figuring out how to get the video into Vegas. He can certainly try to do a conversion outside of Vegas, but then he has to find an application which can read Xvid or Divx and which can then put that into a lossless or uncompressed format, many of which play very slowly on the Vegas timeline.

The advice I gave him was sound, and the video will play on the timeline with no problem.

Another alternative -- and I mentioned this in passing in the posts I linked to above -- is to serve the video into Vegas using VFAPIConv. You can get great performance on the timeline doing it this way.
Widetrack wrote on 7/13/2011, 10:05 AM
John's advice was both sound and effective. After I followed it, Vegas loaded and played the divx video, albeit in fits and starts. But I was able to have Vegas 7 render the vid to NTSC DV, whereupon I did the edits requested and rendered it again, and I now have a new, happy client.

That said, my foray into the world of DIVX left me feeling slimed. The downloads left me no options, the resultant DivX software on my system changed my preferences of what apps play what filetypes and I uninstalled them as soon as I had an editable video.

Thank you all for the help
JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/13/2011, 10:32 AM
> "That said, my foray into the world of DIVX left me feeling slimed. The downloads left me no options, the resultant DivX software on my system changed my preferences of what apps play what filetypes and I uninstalled them as soon as I had an editable video."

I would have just downlaoded the Xvid codec. It won't bloat up your system with any other stuff like DivX does. In fact, Xvid is an alternative for DivX for just that reason.

~jr
Widetrack wrote on 7/13/2011, 5:03 PM
JR:

That being the case, I would have too, had I know such a thing existed. In all the excitement, I still haven't figured out the benefits of either DivX or Xvid.

With your recommendation, I'll definitely check XviD out.

Thanks again to all.