Canon AVI & Vegas Compatibility
by John Gregoriades
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Sep 19, 2008 at 7:54:37 pm
Hi,
This is probably an old question, but it has to do with the video captured by Canon still Digicams, such as my 3-year old Canon A620 point-and-shoot. It is "AVI" and it appears to be a series of JPG photos - with sound, incompatible with Vegas. To use the results, I run these AVIs through Windows Movie Maker and translate them into .wmv files, but this is very time-consuming, and WMM is old and inefficient.
Q1: Are there simpler ways to convert the Canon AVIs into something that Vegas can use - with minimal loss in quality?
Q2: Are there perhaps other editing software, besides Vegas, which can accept these AVIs directly? If so, which?
Q3: Canon has just announced two new superzoom cams:"SX1 IS" and "SX10 IS", with the specs for video being "Movie: AVI (Motion JPEG compression)". Is anyone familiar with this format?
Thank you,
John
Re: Canon AVI & Vegas Compatibility by John Frey on Sep 19, 2008 at 8:32:47 pm
Ahead Software's Nero(ver.7 and 8)include NeroVision, a very basic NLE app. If Vision lets you import these files, try playing and then exporting them to one of its formats.I recently used it to transcode some 1920 x 1080i HD clips, from a new Casio DSLR no less, to something that Vegas 8 could deal with.
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.
Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
Re: Canon AVI & Vegas Compatibility by John Gregoriades on Sep 20, 2008 at 8:23:14 am
Thank you, John.
My version of Nero seems to have a defective NeroVision, but I discovered an old CD which came with a camera. It is ULEAD 7 SE (which I guess is a limited version of ULEAD) and I tried it. Its best two compatible outputs are "NTSC DV" and "NTSC .MPEG2" format. Which is likely to be "best" for use in Vegas?
