Stubborn AVI files arent working!

[miiitchhh]

I have a Memorex HD camcorder, ill admit its a poor quality cheap cam corder.

It creates .AVI files.

These AVI files will play with VLC media player.

However, EVERY other program i try analizing or editing them in, say the video is unsupported.

I've tried importing the video files to Windows Movie Maker, and it says the file is incompadible or unsupported.

I've tried importing the video files to Sony Vegas and it treates it as an AUDIO file, and refuses to play any video or allow it to even sit in the 'video' track on the timeline.

I've tried importing the video files to Corel Video Studio and it treates the file like an audio file.

I have tried converting these AVI files to other formats, but no video editor recognises these AVI files as compadible. Total Video Converter just crashes when it starts converting. Others just produce completely blacked out files with just audio.

Im really at a loss! I don't know what to do!
How can none of these programs support these F'ed up AVI files, yet VLC plays it like nothing.

I have Xvid codecs installed.
Please tell me you guys have an answer, cause i've got like 200 clips i need to make into a compilation video.


Thanks!


I have attached an AVI file that my camera creates.


clip0033.avi

edit: i just realized that when i upload a file it streams from this site, thought it worked like an attachment.
Seems to play flawlessly on this site?

Vegas says "Video: Stream attributes cannot be determined"

[poisondeathray]

It's avc video, adpcm audio, as per mediainfo. Your other converter programs probably crash because you don't have an avc/adpcm decoder activated on your system. (e.g. you could install ffdshow and enable them)

Option 1: convert to an intermediate file (e.g. lagarith, huffyuv, ut video) for import into editor; depending on your cpu specs and what type of editing you intend to do, this maybe difficult to edit because the filesize/bitrate may be large

Option 2: use a dummy avi file to frameserve into vegas . e.g. using avisynth/ffdshow and makeavis (comes with ffdshow), you can import into vegas - tested & working here (make sure you checkmark store uncompressed audio when making the fake avi). You have to know a little about avisynth for this method

Eitherway, it will be tedious to either convert your input files 1 by 1 or make the "dummy avi" files. But the quality is quite poor in your sample, you probably want to use lossless methods instead of some lossy intermediate filetypes

[miiitchhh]

It's avc video, adpcm audio, as per mediainfo. Your other converter programs probably crash because you don't have an avc/adpcm decoder activated on your system. (e.g. you could install ffdshow and enable them)

Option 1: convert to an intermediate file (e.g. lagarith, huffyuv, ut video) for import into editor; depending on your cpu specs and what type of editing you intend to do, this maybe difficult to edit because the filesize/bitrate may be large

Option 2: use a dummy avi file to frameserve into vegas . e.g. using avisynth/ffdshow and makeavis (comes with ffdshow), you can import into vegas - tested & working here (make sure you checkmark store uncompressed audio when making the fake avi). You have to know a little about avisynth for this method

Eitherway, it will be tedious to either convert your input files 1 by 1 or make the "dummy avi" files. But the quality is quite poor in your sample, you probably want to use lossless methods instead of some lossy intermediate filetypes

Your right, the sample i uploaded is kinda low quality, i have some HD video i need to work with also. The majority will be HD.
I believe ill try option number 2 first, because i have an Athlon 3200 (single core 2gz) so converting will take some time.
I still have to read up on how frameserving works and trying to understand what you said =]


From the description of HuffyUV it seems like it would be a fast conversion? So i would want to find a AVC to HUFFYUV converter?
THANKS YOU SOOOO MUCH


NEVERMIND HAHA WOOOOH just installing FFdshadow made it all work!!!

THANK YOU TIMES A MILLION DUDE YOU ROCK ASS

[jagabo]

Try installing ffdshow and enabling the VFW and DirectShow h.264 decoders. WMM and many other editors will then be able to handle the file.

Oops, should have read the whole thread first...