Virtualdub problem

[ROBO1964]

I captured a video the other day on an XP machine using Virtualdub. It seemed to have worked fine and then I encoded using TMPGenc and it gave an excellent quality VCD.

Today I decided I would do some test edits to the clip with Vegas Video 3 and see how they looked. I opened the video in VV3 and the video looked like a mass of colored dots. I think the picture was also upside down. I would play in Windows media player but when I saved from there as an avi it was the same way.

In Virtual dub I used 352x480 and had to use the format UYVY because when I used YUY2 I got Error:48 Unsupported Video Format. I also used Huffy cvompression.

Any idea what went wrong and any ways to fix it or at the very least prevent it from happening again?

[ROBO1964]

OK, I got a chance to do some tests and reading. The format was OK as it is the alternative to YUY2 although I don't know why I don't have that. Where can I get it?

I now KNOW the problem was the huffyuv compression. I loaded it into virtualdub and downloaded the PicVideo MJPEG codec. I then took my huffy version and made another copy in MJPEG compression. That worked fine in Vegas Video. Now I have to register it but at least its cheap.

Does anyone know why huffyuv has this problem as I have read that it does cause problems in editing sometimes. I was wondering if this is what they were talking about.