Import MPEG4 video files into VS10

[chamiz]

I have a Sanyo DV Camera and it saves the Files into MPEG4, when i try to import into the VS10 a massage pops up that it is not supported please can you tell me how i can imort the files into VS10.


Thank you

[Ron P.]

Hi Chamiz,

What is the Model of your Camcorder? Does it record to DVD or MiniDV? Then lastly, how are you trying to Import, Firewire or other means?

Ron P.

[jchunter]

I assume that your camcorder encodes the video on MiniDV tape in Mpeg4 format - right? OTOH, if it encodes in DV format on the tape, what is converting it to Mpeg4?

BTW, I have had NO success editing any of the highly compressed video formats in Video Studio 10+ including Divx, Xvid, Mpeg4... I have only been able to create these files for the purpose of playback.

[chamiz]

Hi Sorry for i didn't reply sooner. my camera is a sd card type not cassette. i import the videos from usb to my documents. it saves the videos into the sd card as Mpeg4, now when i go to import videos from my documents as mpeg4 i get a massage ( Not supported). then i have Ulead photo express and i convert to avi. but the problem is that after convertion the video will come not flowing you know what i mean, it jam's a little bit. that why i would like to import as mpeg4, to import the original.

thankyou for your help

I will look foward for yor reply

[jchunter]

Sorry, but Video Studio can't edit mpeg4. Did the camcorder come with any software?? If not, I recommend that you try to convert it to DVD-compliant Mpeg2, using something like Virtual Dub, which you can download from http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/ After it is converted, you can edit it in Video Studio and it will be in the right format for burning on DVD.

[Ken Berry]

John -- I don't want at all to revive the rancour that characterised the debate on whether or not you can or should edit mpeg-2 in Video Studio, but I happen to be one person (and I acknowledge the fact that so far I am alone in this regard) who *can* edit mpeg-4 in VS10+. I never tried it with VS9, but I have with the current version since I now have a DVD player which will play DivX DVDs. I imported video in mpeg-4 format, cut it, added transitions, and output it to both DVD quality mpeg-4 AND mpeg-2. There have been no out of sync problems so far; nor have I observed any perceptible degradation in quality. To the contrary, indeed, I have been rather impressed by the product.

So rather than just saying flatly that it can't be done -- something you specifically condemned in the mpeg-2 debate -- I think we need to use more graduated language. "While VS10 is supposed to have the ability to edit mpeg-4, whether in the AVI format or DivX [and now, it seems, XVid -- see another thread from yesterday], many people have difficulty doing so. It might thus be better to use a third party program which specialises in this format, such as Virtual Dub, DivX2DVD or even the DivX Create Bundle."