Help Vegas 6. Video wont show in timeline but sound will..

[ash_007]

Hi all, great site.

Hope someone can help;

Have video on my hardrive from my Cannon ixus850 digi cam.

File type says "Video Clip"

Average size is only 5 - 10.0Mb.

Windows media player will play these vids no worries.

Problem is with Vegas movie studio 6.0. I try to put it on the timeline but it only excepts the audio section of the file. The audio sits on the audio line but the video line rejects it... Can't play the video in the preview player either, only the sound plays...

PLEASE HELP ME

[guns1inger]

It is probably mjpeg, but may be something else. Open the video file in the latest G-Spot to find out how it is encoded and what codecs you need to open it.

[cdb]

Your digi cam is a digital still camera that also takes video. That video format may be playable by WMP but apparently it is in a non-standard .avi or .mpg format. You will need to first convert the video captured by the camera into something Vegas can accept.

It might take some trial and error to find a tool that can handle what your still camera recorded. Do you have TMPGenc? QuickTime Pro? Any other video editing software besides Vegas? Other versions of Vegas?

When you find something that can open and convert it, try to convert it into the least compressed format available. Windows avi 720 x 480 if possible, otherwise mpg2 or high quality mov. Although your source is probably not great, if you're going to edit and render again in Vegas you don't want yet another step of compression before you even get it into Vegas, if you can avoind it.

[guns1inger]

SUPER supports Huffyuv for encoding, which is lossless and can be loaded into Vegas if you install the Huffyuv codec.