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December 17th, 2015, 06:15 PM | #1 |
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Import DV AVI files
I am giving Vegas Pro 13 a try as a possible alternate to my existing NLE.
Trying to import the most ancient file known to a Windows computer (OK, one of the oldest files) and I can't believe my eyes... Vegas can't work with good old DV AVI files??? What in the world are you thinking Sony? The error message is : "The file is most likely corrupted or of an unknown format". Unknown to who? The files have been captured from a Sony PD170 via firewire to a Focus FS-H200, then copied from the CF card to the hard drive. They work fine in every player known to man, even primitive Windows Media Player, so it doesn't seem to be a codec issue. They work in every NLE and video processor I have ever tried in my life. At first I thought I came across a corrupted file, but then I Googled the problem and voila, the interweb is full of good-will advice from installing the worst codec pack ever (K-Lite) to encoding to a "more acceptable" format - give me a break! What can be more acceptable than DV AVI??? Here's the format report from MediaInfo: Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave Commercial name : DVCPRO File size : 1.86 GiB Duration : 9mn 13s Overall bit rate mode : Constant Overall bit rate : 28.9 Mbps Recorded date : 2015-12-16 11:31:58.000 Video ID : 0 Format : DV Commercial name : DVCPRO Duration : 9mn 13s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps Encoded bit rate : 28.8 Mbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 4:3 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 29.970 (29970/1000) fps Standard : NTSC Chroma subsampling : 4:1:1 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Interlaced Scan order : Bottom Field First Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357 Stream size : 1.85 GiB (100%) Encoding settings : ae mode=manual / wb mode=one push / white balance= / fcm=manual focus Audio ID : 0-0 Format : PCM Muxing mode : DV Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1 Duration : 9mn 13s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps Encoded bit rate : 0 bps Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Stream size : 101 MiB (5%) Encoded stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%) Please tell me I'm doing something wrong and Vegas does in fact work with DV AVI... I'm on a Win7Ultimate/64 PC. |
December 17th, 2015, 11:12 PM | #2 |
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Re: Import DV AVI files
Ervin,
The file is identified as DVCPRO, not "standard" DV. I recall DVCPRO as a Panasonic DV "format" that may not be read properly by Vegas. DVCPRO tapes had a wider (18micron) track pitch than DVCAM (15) or regular DV (10). Seems like the Focus 200 transcoded the DV files to DVCPRO along the way. In any case, Vehas is not reading the files as standard DV. Even the DVCPRO HD100 format was not natively recognized by Vegas until later versions of Vegas pro. Perhaps your best bet would be to render the files to "standard" DV (or an intermediary format like Cineform) in your other NLE and then import into Vegas. A PIA, I know, but it would likely work for you. Ken |
December 18th, 2015, 02:38 AM | #3 |
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Re: Import DV AVI files
ken hits the nail upon the head....
vegas works very well with dv - not so with dvpro...
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