Having trouble importing avi's (divx/xvid) and mkv's into Vegas 10

[mr-scarface]

I'm running Sony Vegas Pro 10 64-bit and I can only import VOBs and TS files. I can't open AVI's (divx/xvid) or MKV's.

I did some google searches and installed an ffdshow codec but it didn't change anything. I read that Vegas can't take MKV files but what about my avi's which are divx/xvid?

Thanks

[Cornucopia]

Do you have the DivX or Xvid codecs installed on that computer?

Could be that it doesn't come with its own installation of them, so without a separate install, it wouldn't know how to handle them.

Scott

[edDV]

Neither are directly supported. First check which codecs are supported (audio and video). If yours is then just demux/remux to a supported container like avi/mpg/mp4/mxf. In general they only support transport streams in the context of a supported camcorder format (e.g. TS for HDV or MTS for AVCHD).

It seems the policy is wide acceptance of production formats even AC3 but inconvenience for downloadable media or commercial DVD/Blu-Ray.

[jagabo]

You need 64 bit codecs for 64 bit editors.

[mr-scarface]

I installed the divx codecs but it still doesn't work. I'm not sure if they are 64-bit or not.

Sounds like a pain to always convert videos before importing into vegas. Maybe it's better to get a different program than Vegas? Are there any which support mkv/avi-divx and are as good as Vegas?

[aedipuss]

pretty much all high end video editors are geared toward production formats as source material, not end user ones that are already highly compressed.

[mr-scarface]

In that case, what's the best codec and container to convert the source files to? Assuming you want good quality but not overly large output files.

[aedipuss]

large file sizes may be necessary to retain any quality from the files, maybe something like huffyuv, lagarith or other lossless codecs. if you plan on editing them and then re-encoding them saving as much video q as possible is a good thing.

[jagabo]

I think Vegas uses VFW codecs to access AVI files. Divx doesn't install a 64 bit VFW decoder. Try installing a 64 bit Xvid codec.

[mr-scarface]

I think Vegas uses VFW codecs to access AVI files. Divx doesn't install a 64 bit VFW decoder. Try installing a 64 bit Xvid codec.

Thanks! I installed the xvid codec and now I can open the videos.

[_Al_]

I have win 7 , 64 bit, ffdshow 32 bit, Vegas 8c and DivX, Xvid and others like HuffYUV would load into Vegas.

You need to allow it in VFW configuration for ffdshow. Click decoders and change disabled for XviD ,DivX and whatever you need change to libavcodec.

Then after loading those clips, DivX, HuffYUV into Vegas it would show in properties codec as ffdshow.

oh, I see, this is 32 bit vs. 64 bit codec

[poisondeathray]

Sometimes you can re-wrap mkv into .m2ts or mp4 and it will work for import; but some encoding settings can make it imcompatible for vegas to decode

But if you know how to use avisynth, almost any file can be loaded into vegas with avisynth virtual file system (AVFS), including mkv, by frameserving (no large intermediate files)