Concerning avi files with Vegas..

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Concerning avi files with Vegas..

Postby hybridWing » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:34 pm

most of the videos i use in amvs are in avi format. When i try to import an avi video into Vegas, it becomes immediately corrupt. For example: One time, i imported an avi video, and when i put it on to the timeline, the video got stripped off and only the audio was there. I checked through every single video in avi format, and they were working fine. Then I decided to import a different formatted video that was in wmv. Vegas was suddenly working fine. So my question is: Does anyone know a good video converter that is easy and efficient?
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Postby Scintilla » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:53 pm

Don't convert them to WMV; it'll degrade the video quality even further, unless you encode at a really high bitrate, at which point you might as well be using an actual honest-to-goodness lossless codec instead.

Use an actual honest-to-goodness lossless codec instead (such as HuffYUV or Lagarith).

That said, nobody ever went wrong with <a href="http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net">VirtualDubMod</a>.
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Postby hybridWing » Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:12 pm

alright thx. so i just have to get the codecs of the avi files to one of the two u have mentioned? cuz the fact that the videos were encoded with Divx was probably the problem :(
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Postby Scintilla » Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:20 pm

hybridWing wrote:alright thx. so i just have to get the codecs of the avi files to one of the two u have mentioned? cuz the fact that the videos were encoded with Divx was probably the problem :(

Yes, it probably was, and <a href="http://www.aquilinestudios.org/DivX_Editing.html">here's why</a>.
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Postby hybridWing » Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:25 pm

hey. if ur still there, answer me one more question. im deciding to use the huffyuv codec according to the site link on your last post. but how exactly do i get it?
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Postby Scintilla » Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:48 pm

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