Almost bald :-) : can't import into DVD Architect
by Frank Colgoni
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Aug 6, 2009 at 6:14:57 pm
Newbie Frank here. Would appreciate any advice. Yeah, pulling my hair out. I've spent hours attempting to interface between Vegas Movie Studio and DVD Architect Studio using the "make movie" function using a very simple test Vegas project.
The project properties are set to:
NTSC DV Widescreen and the audio to stereo.
When I execute "make movie", it creates the mpg file and the ac3 file of the same name and then opens DVD Architect. Once open, Architect delivers this message:
"Warning: an error occured while opening one or more files. The file is an unsupported format."
When I click details, it shows the mpg file created.
Re: Almost bald :-) : can't import into DVD Architect by John Rofrano on Aug 6, 2009 at 8:10:52 pm
Is the AC3 file created? Is there any other software on your PC that creates AC3 files? Have you download one of those "codec paks" that has every codec under the sun in one installer? Something on your PC is causing Vegas not to work properly. You just have to figure out what it is. :( (not fun... i know)
Re: Almost bald :-) : can't import into DVD Architect by Terry Esslinger on Aug 6, 2009 at 9:31:51 pm
I asked the question in another post about downloading a 'codec pak' (I think it was K-lite) I was concerned that some of the codecs would 'replace the codecs that Vegas uses and cause problems. I was told (I don't know how authoratatively) not to woorry. That Vegas looks first to its own codecs for the render. If it doesn't have one that will do the job then it looks to other installed codecs. How does this sound?
Re: Almost bald :-) : can't import into DVD Architect by John Rofrano on Aug 6, 2009 at 9:42:19 pm
> I was told (I don't know how authoratatively) not to woorry. That Vegas looks first to its own codecs for the render. If it doesn't have one that will do the job then it looks to other installed codecs. How does this sound?
I believe that that is how it is supposed to work, however, I have seen people get themselves in trouble installing codec paks and uninstalling them seemed to fix the problem. (your mileage may vary) ;-)
Re: Almost bald :-) : can't import into DVD Architect by Rob Strobbe on Aug 7, 2009 at 3:24:45 am
Not sure, but I think perhaps the trouble may be not in which codec Vegas uses to encode a file, but in which codec DVD Architect uses to interpret it. Could very well be that the file is fine -- DVD Architect just thinks there's something wrong with it because it's trying to "read" it with one of those errant codec pack codecs.
I haven't experienced this with DVDA (I stopped using these kinds of codec packs a long time ago), but I've had other software be unable to read a file properly. Then once I dumped the codec pack and got my system back to normal, that same file opened fine.
Re: Almost bald :-) : can't import into DVD Architect by John Rofrano on Aug 7, 2009 at 11:01:30 am
That reminds me... other software can mess things up as well. Nero is a big offender. I stopped using it because it inserted it's own video filters into your Windows system that caused Boris RED to not be able to read DV AVI files from Sony Vegas! So it could very well be some other software that is causing Vegas to not read the file.
Re: Almost bald :-) : can't import into DVD Architect by Frank Colgoni on Aug 7, 2009 at 6:37:19 pm
Thanks guys. It's definitely not a codec pack issue but the Nero OEM application is installed. I instlled everything on my laptop which doesn't have Nero and I have encountered the same issue.
I have double-checked that the output format is correct any number of time but it just doesn't like it for some reason. I have been scouring the net for answers and have found a few others with the same problem but it's always a dead end...
Re: Almost bald :-) : can't import into DVD Architect by James Brian on Oct 8, 2009 at 9:39:06 pm
Frank did you have any success with your issue?
I'm going thru the exact same thing and man..it's annoying as hell.
Found this thread thru search hoping to find easy answer...guess nothing yet other than whats been posted. All my other programs seem to be working fine..audio and video.
Please Frank post an update if you've had any luck with this.
