How to open an AVI file in Sony Vegas Pro 12?

[KyleMadrid]

Hi all,

I have an AVI file that I really want to import into Sony Vegas Pro 12, but it keeps rejecting it. I know I could just convert it to an mp4 and it will definitely open it, but I don't want to lose any quality because the file isn't in the best quality to begin with. Especially since I will have to render it after I'm finished editing it in Sony Vegas.

I just think it's strange that Sony Vegas won't open it because when you go to import a file it has avi files listed as one of the supported formats.

One idea I had is that I could convert the file to a lossless format (I don't care how big the resulting file size is) and then import it, but I don't know of any software that could do this. Anyone have any suggestions? And of course it would need to be a lossless format the Sony Vegas can open... But my preferred way of doing this is to just open the avi file if it is somehow possible...

Here is the MediaInfo for the file

Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 1.34 GiB
Duration : 1h 37mn
Overall bit rate : 1 965 Kbps
Writing library : TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Version. 4.7.4.299

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 37mn
Bit rate : 1 830 Kbps
Width : 704 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.222
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.180
Stream size : 1.25 GiB (93%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 37mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 89.4 MiB (7%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 250 ms (6.25 video frames)
Interleave, preload duration : 206 ms


Thanks

[aedipuss]

it has a packed bitstream vegas might not like. you could try unpacking it with MPEG4 Modifier

[KyleMadrid]

OK, thanks. I will give that a try.

[KyleMadrid]

Sadly that didn't work

Thanks anyway.

[aedipuss]

You do have the xvid codec installed?

[aedipuss]

Since you have vegss12 it has to be a 64 bit version

[KyleMadrid]

No, I will try it. thanks

[KyleMadrid]

Great, it worked. Thanks very much!