Youtube video's and VideoStudio

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:51 pm

Hey,

Just a quick question really. I am pretty much a newbie to VideoStudio, but I am eager to learn. I am piecing together a video using various clips I found of Ayrton Senna on youtube.

The thing is, I download the video's in .flv format using the firefox extension, but I am struggling to get VideoStudio to read them once I have converted them to .avi files. I just get the "file read" error or "file is not accessible" error, depending on the circumstances.

Cheers,
Martyn

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:53 pm

You converted them to AVI, great, what flavour of AVI? It's like converting the contents of a bottle to the contents of a glass but, what's in it?

AVI is not a file format, it's a container for other formats. DV AVI is DigitalVideo in an AVI wrapper. You can have AVI files containing mpeg4 or other highly compressed formats.

Which version of VS do you use? What were the settings for your conversion and which program did you use for it?

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:30 am

heinz-oz wrote:You converted them to AVI, great, what flavour of AVI? It's like converting the contents of a bottle to the contents of a glass but, what's in it?

AVI is not a file format, it's a container for other formats. DV AVI is DigitalVideo in an AVI wrapper. You can have AVI files containing mpeg4 or other highly compressed formats.

Which version of VS do you use? What were the settings for your conversion and which program did you use for it?

Thanks for the reply. I did not know that AVI is a container for other formats.

I used Riva to convert the file (I found that by googling), and I just used the default settings.

Thanks!

NoM.O · Post by **NoM.O** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:21 pm

I'm afraid you'll need to provide more info than this. To repeat Hienz's questions - Which version of VS do you use? What were the settings for your conversion? DivX? XviD? DV? Something else? + any other settings you can see when starting your conversion. Telling us that you used the default settings is of little to no help in diagnosing your problem.

Personally, and others might disagree, I would convert your .flv files to a DVD compliant mpeg rather than .avi. The quality of .flv files from Youtube is already pretty low, and if you plan to make a DVD, multiple conversions will only reduce the quality further.

peace.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:08 pm

Hi from one Melbournian to another. I agree with everything you said. Converting highly compressed formats to something else is always problematic, doing it several times is only going to deteriorate it further.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:17 pm

NoM.O wrote:I'm afraid you'll need to provide more info than this. To repeat Hienz's questions - Which version of VS do you use? What were the settings for your conversion? DivX? XviD? DV? Something else? + any other settings you can see when starting your conversion. Telling us that you used the default settings is of little to no help in diagnosing your problem.

Personally, and others might disagree, I would convert your .flv files to a DVD compliant mpeg rather than .avi. The quality of .flv files from Youtube is already pretty low, and if you plan to make a DVD, multiple conversions will only reduce the quality further.

peace.

Well I am using VS 10 Pro. I don't know the settings but they obviously never worked.

Well, I am just making a compilation of Ayrton Senna, and I don't particularly want to put it on DVD.

Basically all I want is to make it so VS can read the video files downloaded from YouTube, because I must of done it wrong originally.

Cheers.

NoM.O · Post by **NoM.O** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:50 pm

Heinz - G'day, sorry, spelt your name wrong last time.

Martyn - O.K, well I've never used the Riva Encoder, but a quick search did turn up this thread - http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=259578 - which contains instructions on how to use the encoder.

Unfortunately, it would seem from reading that thread that Riva does have problems with certain .flv files. The good news is that the same thread also contains recommendations for Super (freeware available here - http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html). Again, I've not used this particular converter, but it is often recommended by other forum members whose opinions seem favourable.

Me, I use Total Video Converter http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/ for converting .flvs, which has worked perfectly in my case, but this isn't free and will leave a watermark unless you register the product (US $45.95).

Without knowing which codecs (DivX, Xvid etc.) you have installed on your system, I would stick to my recommendation of converting the .flv files to DVD compliant mpegs. The file size will be quite a bit larger than the original .flv, but I can almost guarantee that VS will be able to read them.

A bit convoluted, but I hope that was of some help.

peace.

Martyn · Post by **Martyn** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:41 pm

Thank you for the helpful post NOM.

I settled for SUPER and it worked perfectly

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NoM.O · Post by **NoM.O** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:22 pm

No worries, happy to hear you got it sorted.

peace.