Vegas Movie Studio HD 9.0 and Importing .avi files.

[empressofbees]

Hello,

I purchased the Vegas Movie Studio HD 9.0 to make some fan videos and fun little things for youtube. Most of the files on my harddrive are .avi files and when I try to import them the audio doesn't show up. It says "stream attributes could not be determined". I've tried looking through the forums here to try and find my answer, but I have to be honest when I say that I really don't know what I'm doing.

I understand that Vegas and other such programs are meant to work with files that haven't already been supercompressed and what not and that the files I have are mostly end-product files, but is there a way to get this to work?

I'm really, really new with all of this and I'm not very familiar with video editing or Vegas, so please be patient with me!

[Bjs]

First answer is mediainfo ... always the first thing to use when you run into these issues.

Second depends on what mediainfo reports will determine next step ... in general programs such as virtualdub or avidemux could be used to convert audio to mp3 / wav and video set to direct stream copy ... save as new avi ... now import into vegas.

Looking for answers related to "stream attributes could not be determined" will eventually provide results but takes more time than its worth considering the number of applications this error can occur. Thou I do suspect the vegas help file has a short description explaining this problem but then suggests re-encoding the problem stream to a type supported by vegas ... which then sends users nuts looking for another product to go from point a to point b ... work, work, work.

And welcome to the forum empressofbees

[empressofbees]

Thanks for the welcome and the quick reply!

I downloaded mediainfo, but I'm not sure which view has the information needed. I'm going with "text" because it seems a good bet.

General
Complete name : C:\Users\Heather\Videos\TV\Sherlock\2x03 - The Reichenbach Fall.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 700 MiB
Duration : 1h 28mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 109 Kbps
Writing application : transcode-1.1.5

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate : 966 Kbps
Width : 624 pixels
Height : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.176
Stream size : 611 MiB (87%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 28mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 81.7 MiB (12%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)

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