Does VS10 support .avi files ??

sage · Post by **sage** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:46 pm

I'm hoping that some of you who have already received your box'd copy of VS10 can tell me if VS10 supports importing an .avi file and if it supports saving a project as an .avi file.

Thanks very much ...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:00 pm

Yes it does support AVI -- whether it be uncompressed AVI, DV/AVI or one of the mpeg-4 formats which use the extension .avi as the carrier format (such as DivX or XVid).

Taking your second question literally -- no version of Video Studio saves a project as an AVI. It saves a project as a VSP file, though this is only a small file which tells the program what video clips have been included in it, where they are and what editing has been done to them.

But taking your question a little more widely, yes, you can open a file using AVI files, edit them and then go to Share > Create Video File and choose AVI (or DV/AVI) as the final format of the video file produced from your project. This has been possible in every version of VS I have used since VS7, though I am sure it did so as well in earlier versions.

sage · Post by **sage** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:14 pm

Thank you for the information you supplied and for your quick response.

I downloaded the free trial yesterday, and I'm extremely pleased with how intuitive VS is. I am purchasing the full box'd copy and I look forward to receiving it.

Thanks again for your detailed reply.