Ulead cannot open MEPG-4 video file

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:34 am

I was given a clip made on a mac and exported in MPEG-4 format. I transfered it to my pc via a thumb drive. I am able to view it in Quicktime and Windows media player but not in ulead. I even tried associating it with ulead. Is there anyway to use this clip in my ulead project?

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:14 am

With so many formats and so many format variations, you never know 'till you try a particular file.

Sometimes you have to experiment with different formats, and sometimes you need a 3rd-party conversion program.

What version of Video Studio do you have? (The website says that X2 supports Quicktime, which is an MPEG-4 variation, but it doesn't say "MPEG-4". It says that X2 Pro supports both MPEG-4 and Quicktime.)

I was given a clip made on a mac and exported in MPEG-4 format.

FYI - If the original format was something other than MPEG-4: Its usually best to avoid any format conversion until you're done with editing. You can loose quality when you convert to a lossy format (like MPEG), or when you convert from one lossy format to another. And, the more highly-compressed formats (MPEG-4, WMV, DivX, etc) tend to cause the most trouble when you try to edit them or convert them to another format.

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:20 am

I am still using VS 10+ which I thought worked with MPEG-4.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:28 am

VS10+ does support MPEG-4 (.mp4). I found a couple of mp4 files on my system and was able to insert them into VS10+.

middlebury madness · Post by **middlebury madness** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:05 pm

Is there more than one form of mpeg-4 file?It gives me a message that it cannot open the file.

Post by **VikingAnimations** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:11 pm

You could try converting the mpeg-4 file with this - it's free:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp4cam2avi/

"MP4Cam2AVI is a MPEG4 to AVI converter/joiner for digital MPEG4 cameras, it makes their clips DivX/XviD compatible. MJPEG and H263 are supported as well. Program doesn't re-encode video, just passes video data to avi container."