Unable to import avi into Vegas 10?! plz!

Hi everyone,

Due to my last complications with movie studio 9 here, i have decided to upgrade to vegas 10. (not movie studio)

Anyway now i have problems regarding importing certain files, you know where im going with this. . . . Cannot import avi, cannot import .ts

GOD frustrating!!

I could import both of these with movie studio and still have it intalled, why cant vegas 10 do it. I found people online with the same problem so i intalled k lite codec pack, god knows why because it works with movie studio. Still no avail hoping you could help.

Sorry this was typed quickly and may have mistakes :)

george

John you seemed to have saved the day again. Seems so stupid ;)

Anyway im going to try that. Thank You!

[George McCreadie] "I installed a few codecs but do you have any idea what codec i need to import .ts streams?"

No. You need to determine what codec the file uses. Look at the documentation on your PVR.

Vegas Pro 10 64-bit should have no problem opening MPEG2 transport streams. You're problem could be that you installed the K-Lite codec pack and it has replaced the high-quality codecs that you paid Sony good money for, with low quality free codecs. Unfortunately, the damage is done. These codec packs usually do not uninstall cleanly and leave your PC in a horrible state that is difficult to recover from.

If Vegas Pro 32-bit will open them then use that. If not, your problem could be related to the codec pack. First you need to determine what codec the .TS file uses.

~jr

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[George McCreadie] "So far its money* well spent

*=Not"

Perhaps you didn't understand my last post so let me say it a different way: You caused this problem.

Vegas Pro 10 has no problem with MPEG2 Transport Streams. I edit them all the time. It plays them perfectly right out-of-the-box. There is nothing special you need to do to make it work. You have caused the problem by installing the K-Like codec pak. This is not a Vegas problem. This is caused by your computer being messed up by installing a codec pak.

You can try uninstalling K-Lite and re-installing Vegas Pro and see if you can re-establish the Vegas codecs. Otherwise, the only other solution I know of is to rebuild the PC from scratch (i.e. format the hard drive and re-install Windows and never, ever , NEVER, install a codecpak again)

Just to give you an analogy: installing a codec-pak is like taking every pill in your medicine cabinet hoping that one of them will make you better... one of them might... but the others might kill you. It is never a good idea to install a codec-pak on a video editing workstation. You should always find the one codec that you need and install only that codec from a reputable source.

~jr

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[George McCreadie] "I know i caused this problem by doing that, the thing that i cannot understand is that vegas movie studio 9 can still import and render the mpeg2 transport streams?!? Its doing in my nut."

Because Movie Studio is 32-bit and uses 32-bit codecs and Vegas Pro 10 64-bit requires 64-bit codecs. This is why I asked, can Vegas Pro 10 32-bit read the file. It may only be the 64-bit MPEG2 decoder that is messed up.

Again, try re-installing Vegas Pro 10 64-bit and see if that helps. Also try Vegas Pro 32-bit. You can have both installed at the same time so you loose nothing by trying.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

You know I'm thinkin'... just because the file is .TS it could still have AVC/H.264 inside. (i.e., it doesn't necessarily have MPEG2 in it). My Hauppauge HD-PVR records .TS files with AVC/H.264 in it. Then I use tsMuxerGUI to remux them into .M2TS files. That might work for you.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[George McCreadie] "Baseing the render on Apple iPod 640 x 480 what settings do i need to change to get 100mb per 10 min and the youtube widescreen size?"

If you want widescreen 16:9 then the dimensions should be set to 640x360. As I said before, use Two Pass and lower the average bit rate to between 1,200,000 and 1,300,000 bps and you should hit your 100mb per 10 minutes.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[George McCreadie] "Do you know what resoloution i need to get youtube HD?"

YouTube HD can be either 1280x720 or 1920x1080. personally, I feel that 1920x1080 is ridiculous for internet video so I upload all of my HD videos at 1280x720.

[George McCreadie] "-and by doing that will it take longer to render and have a larger file size?"

No, the file size is determined by the bit rate. Of course, you should increase the bit rate if you increase your resolution to make sure that you have enough bits to accurately represent the frame.

[George McCreadie] "Is there like a REP button on these forums?"

No, but there is a KUDO's button at the bottom of a post but I'm not sure what it actually does. lol. ;-)

~jr

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[George McCreadie] "What sort of bit rate would i be looking at or do i need to test it myself."

That's the problem. If you want to maintain the same file size you can't increase the bit-rate. I guess what I'm saying is, forget about HD if you don't want to increase the file size. I would use at least 2,500,000 - 3,000,000 for 720p HD but that will make your file almost twice as big. (don't forget HD is 5x the information of SD)

~jr

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