Sony Vegas won't import video

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:36 pm

Over the last few days, WMM has been EXTREMELY frustrating, and I have decided to make the switch to Sony Vegas for good (y'no, unless I'm bored). But the thing is, when I try to import my DVD footage into Sony Vegas, it only imports the audio. I can import WMV, and if I convert the videos into HD-AVI using Windows Movie Maker, they will work inVegas. But WMM has become that unusable.

So, is there some setting I have not done right? Can someone help?

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:39 pm

(Ack, I posted in the wrong board, sorry.)

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:49 pm

1. The term you're looking for is "DV AVI", not "HD AVI".

2. Since it's one of the first things to ask on all of these threads: What codec/format did you convert your DVD footage to before trying to get it into Vegas?

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:11 pm

Eep. With all these HD video players popping up >___>

Anyway, I Xvid, through Auto Gourdian Knot. I thought I had DivX, but it won't let me convert to DivX, so whatever....

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:24 pm

<a href="http://www.amvwiki.org/index.php/DivX_E ... evegas.gif[/img]</a>

God, I love these banners.

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:26 pm

Well, there is my problem o.o

So, is there a way to convert my videos into....something else while retaining quality?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:32 pm

The page I linked to describes two different solutions:

1) cut the clips you need and compress them with something lossless, such as HuffYUV or Lagarith (eats up HD space but offers faster editing)

or

2) serve the offending AVI files with AVISynth's <b>AVISource</b> command (slower editing but no big lossless clips taking up space).

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:36 pm

Well, Doh. I didn't know that banner was a link, sorry ^^;

Thank you.

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:05 pm

Ok, this should be the last question, but we'll see.

I'm confused where to place the HuffYUV .dll so AviSynth will reconize it. Looking at that link, seems like I need to make a new folder for it, but i figure I'll ask while I can.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:14 pm

Hagaren Viper wrote:Ok, this should be the last question, but we'll see.

I'm confused where to place the HuffYUV .dll so AviSynth will reconize it. Looking at that link, seems like I need to make a new folder for it, but i figure I'll ask while I can.

When you unzipped the contents of the HuffYUV .ZIP file, there should have been a file called "huffyuv.inf". Right-click on that sucker in Windows Explorer and select "Install".