I try to split and cut together a series of scenes from a movie for a presentation. The format of the movie is AVI, it works to load it and to split it, to add effect and so on but I can't watch it. Not even the preview window wants to show it, and when I try to save it as a MPEG or WMV or anything I get the "No combination of intermediate filters could be found" error.
What am I doing wrong? I managed to add music and to extract the original sound of a trailer in WMV and later save it. Why won't my XVID file work?
Can't read my AVI
Moderator: Ken Berry
If I understand you correctly you have a Movie on your Hdd which is AVI but won't play in VS.a series of scenes from a movie
This may be because the Movie was encoded using a 'Codec' that isn't available in VS in which case you will need to identify and download the same one as was used.
G SPOT Codex Analyser:-
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/quick_start.html
Copy one of the files into this free tool and it will tell you which Codec was used then you can 'Google' to find it.
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Welcome to the forums,
Xvid, is a very highly compressed format. While you can create such formats from projects in VS, it seems to pose numerous problems while trying to edited them. VS just does not get along well with them. Xvid, DivX and MPEG-4 (which can contain various formats such as MOV) were developed for one thing and one thing only-- to be viewed on a PC and not to be edited.
First try converting your Xvid to something that VS can handle, and I would strongly recommend the DVD Compliant MPEG-2. You can use the Free program SUPER. It can convert about any format to any other format. Several of us have used it to convert files like DivX. Again I'm going to mention, DVD Compliant MPEG-2, because you are going to take a quality hit when you convert it from the Xvid to MPEG-2, and there is no need to take another when you create your video file from your project, or burn your DVD. Having the video in DVD Compliant MPEG-2 (not just MPEG-2) AND when you create your DVD ensure that you have checked Do not Convert DVD Compliant MPEG-2 files. That way it will be smart rendered and not recoded.
Xvid, is a very highly compressed format. While you can create such formats from projects in VS, it seems to pose numerous problems while trying to edited them. VS just does not get along well with them. Xvid, DivX and MPEG-4 (which can contain various formats such as MOV) were developed for one thing and one thing only-- to be viewed on a PC and not to be edited.
First try converting your Xvid to something that VS can handle, and I would strongly recommend the DVD Compliant MPEG-2. You can use the Free program SUPER. It can convert about any format to any other format. Several of us have used it to convert files like DivX. Again I'm going to mention, DVD Compliant MPEG-2, because you are going to take a quality hit when you convert it from the Xvid to MPEG-2, and there is no need to take another when you create your video file from your project, or burn your DVD. Having the video in DVD Compliant MPEG-2 (not just MPEG-2) AND when you create your DVD ensure that you have checked Do not Convert DVD Compliant MPEG-2 files. That way it will be smart rendered and not recoded.
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