Help Needed Regarding 'Corel VideoStudio X2'

[oedipust]

Hi,

I’m using Corel VideoStudio X2 as my preferred video editor (as it is very simple and fulfills my needs). However, it has a very big problem and that is the input format support. It does not support many formats like MKV, MP4, flash, and also some AVI files. Sometimes when inserting an AVI clip it gives the error “audio codec not supported.” Sometimes when some AVI clip is inserted, it accepts it but when I use the feature “Save Trimmed Video,” it gives the error “cannot compress audio,” etc.

So my question is, how can I enhance its input format support?

I’m kind of a newbie and hoping to get simple answers.

Thanks

[Baldrick]

Most editors will have problem with mkv, flash and some mp4s. Maybe try videostudio x3.

Or else can you always reconvert to a more editor-friendly format with for example avidemux, winff or xmedia recode.

[guns1inger]

Short answer : Nope.

Long answer : Most Non-Linear Editors are based around industry recognised formats and formats designed to be edited. Most formats that the average user knows about or acquires in their travels are not editable formats, but end delivery playback formats. They are heavily compressed using compression that is difficult to edit with, and often don't handle multiple re-encoding without quickly showing damage. Even when they do support general container formats, such as AVI, they don't always handle the possible codec combinations very well. No camera records in an mkv container. Some do use MP4 for AVC, and some editors will work with this format.

If you are actually editing the footage, either re-package it into a better format, or re-encode it using a lossless format (huffyuv/lagarith in an AVI container), edit it, output to lossless, then re-encode to something smaller. If you are just making basic cuts, look as something like AVI Demux, which does handle many of the formats you mention. If you are just re-encoding, VideoStudio is simply the wrong tool.

Non of the real editors will work with most fo the common download formats nicely, and in many cases, not at all. The target audience for most fo them simply would not be editing that type of video.

[oedipust]

Thanks guys.

Actually I'm not just re-encoding, but also doing some fine cuts using the Multi-Trim feature, which is very simple and easy in VideoStudio as I can move between the frames by just using the right or left arrow keys and hence making fine cuts is very easy. I haven't found multi-trimming that easy in other video editors that I have tried like Sony Vegas and PowerDirector. AVS Video Editor has huge input & output format support. I didn't find any format that it did not support, but again its multi-trim feature is very very limited and it takes a long time to fine cut even a single clip.

Now going to try AVI Demux and see what can I do using this tool.