rendering various minicamera movies to DV or else

[cheeseplease]

I got a project in sony vegas that consists of various video materials from small cameras, the file formats are everything between mp4 mov mpeg and avi.

some of those files cant get opened correctly in vegas, so Iwant to convert them all into a different format that vegas can handle.

now im not sure what fileformat I gotta go to, and how I can convert all the files correctly.
I tend to work with virtualdub, cause its good at opening the clips; but I have problems rendering the files out of VD afterwards. on using a DV codec VD says 'the source image format is not acceptable', so is there a way rendering the stuff to DV or would rendering it to another losless format be better? I could also use huffyuv as codec but its bigger than DV.

[Baldrick]

You can try mp4camtoavi, it will make an avi file from mp4 and mov from still cameras.

DV requires 720x480 or 720x576 video frame size, so if you want to use it you must resize and you will lose a bit quality if you upresize. Maybe try lagarith instead of huffyuv.

[jagabo]

I tend to work with virtualdub, cause its good at opening the clips; but I have problems rendering the files out of VD afterwards. on using a DV codec VD says 'the source image format is not acceptable'

The video must be 720x480, 29.97 fps for NTSC DV, 720x576, 25 fps for PAL DV. If your source doesn't match those specs use the Resize filter and frame rate options to convert it.