Trying to get my videos into Video studio

[City Builder]

Hello,
This is my first attempt at dealing with Video, I've been an avid film photographer for a great deal of time but now find the need that I must deal with video as I' am video'ing one of my dogs that is dying of cancer and wish to have a permanent vidography of him before he takes a turn for the worse.

Now my problem is that I've got quite a few video clips (that play seemingly fine in Windows media player 11) but when I try to import them into video studio x3 to clean them up and export them back out, the problem is that Videostudio tells me something to the effect that there is an unsuported format. The videos are in .AVI format, the way that the Insignia digital video camera records them, I notice when i mouse over them in Videostudio capture window it shows something about audio being in Unknown ACM format. Perhaps that is the part of the video's that videostudio can't seem to work out to import?

I've looked through the basic help system of videostudio trying to figure out where I've gone wrong but I've not come to any conclusions that I'm maybe just importing the digital media (avi videos) wrong in some way. It seems to me that it should be as simple as plugging in my sdhc card to the media card reader, and then opening videostudio x3 and import those files on the sdhc card, but this produces those errors upon trying to import them about an unsupported format.

Any help is appreciated.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Copy the files from the Sdhc card to your hard drive.
Then try importing the files to Video Studio, Right click timeline and select insert video.

The import Digital Media option is normally used to import DVD discs.

[Accolades]

Hi,

What version of Video Studio are you using?

All updates applied, Direct X......

AVI file extension can be one of 1000+ types? probably need the video properties to assist in offering solutions.

What format are the files directly off the camera memory card?

Practice practice practice, test test test, trial and error .....

All good fun...

[City Builder]

When I right click the timeline and choose insert video, I choose the .avi file that came out of my video camera and which is now on my hard drive I get a message that tells me
[C:\Users\myname\Desktop\videos\004.AVI] is not accessible.
then an Ok button to acknowledge the message.

After acknowledging the Ok button I get another message that tells me:
These files cannot be added to this project.
These files may be of unknown file format, the computer does not have enough memory or the file is copyright protected.

It then goes on to list the file and it's location as
C:\Users\myname\Desktop\videos\004.AVI

I think we can elimnate the possibility of not enough memory as my computer has 8GB of RAM in it, which should be plenty of memory to do a small video of only 64MB

It doesn't matter what video I choose, they all produce the same message when trying to insert them.

VideoStudio X3 I assume all updates applied since it updated today I believe. DirectX I assume is uptodate however this being a new install of Win 7 pro 64bit on a new computer I built last week, I suppose directx could be not the latest version. Not sure where I would get the latest version to be honest, usually I just rely on the video games that I install to install a newer version of directx. All but 7 windows updates are applied to this computer, those 7 show they have nothing to do with images, photos, videos etc, they are other updates that I don't wish to install at this time for a few more days until they are proven stable as I've had issues in the past with adopting the immediate download and install of windows updates to where now I wait at least 3 to 4 days to make sure there is no scuttlebut about a bad update.

As far as the format of the video out of the camera, it simply lists the format as AVI, my choices are either to produce a High Resolution video in AVI format or multiple formats of AVI and create a very low quality formate of MOV. I don't use the MOV format because the resolution is too low to be useful for anything other than maybe sending the file as an email attachement. Anyway, the two error messages maybe will give somebody an idea what might be going on with this process on my computer?

[City Builder]

Sorry about the 2nd reply instead of editing, but apparently I'm still on lockdown and have to have every message approved before it will appear so my last post is already posted but not authorized and I wanted to get this in too instead of having to wait for that one, and then wait for the edit to be authorized later on, hence double time waiting.

As far as format goes, here is a capture of the properties of the video in the videostudio x3 import video window:

format.jpg (39.02 KiB) Viewed 5299 times

This I suppose lists that Videostudio thinks is the format of my video. Again, this video is straight out of the camera, I simply put the memory stick (sdsh card) into my card reader and had it copied to my hard drive where I tried to grab it from (the hdd) to insert into videostudio. i did no processing on the video before (while in the camera), during the transfer or while it's been on my hdd.

[City Builder]

Ok, I may have solved it. I opened the video in another video player (VLC media player) and looked at the video properties in VLC media player where it told me something about the codec used is codec H264, so I googled up that and found the codec, downloaded it, scanned it with my panda antivirus to try to insure it's clean of malicious sofware and installed it.

Now when I import video from the right click menu, it imports the video fine. If it wasn't the installation of the Codec H264 then I don't know what else it might be that got it working since I didn't change anything.

So cheers for the suggestion about the type of file it might be, it got me start looking to see what it might be and seems to work now so pleased to say, this topic is now solved for me (assuming nothing else stops me in videostudio )

[Black Lab]

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Interesting, glad you have managed to get your files imported.

Although I thought that codec came with Video Studio.
Have you fully installed the program and all patches.
I do not use X3 or W7 so cannot comment further, maybe others can help.

As your using HD files ensure Smart Proxy is activated and creating proxy files.

[Accolades]

Ok, I may have solved it. I opened the video in another video player (VLC media player) and looked at the video properties in VLC media player where it told me something about the codec used is codec H264, so I googled up that and found the codec, downloaded it, scanned it with my panda antivirus to try to insure it's clean of malicious sofware and installed it.

Now when I import video from the right click menu, it imports the video fine. If it wasn't the installation of the Codec H264 then I don't know what else it might be that got it working since I didn't change anything.

So cheers for the suggestion about the type of file it might be, it got me start looking to see what it might be and seems to work now so pleased to say, this topic is now solved for me (assuming nothing else stops me in videostudio )

Hi,

H.264/AVC is a block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). It was the product of a partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264 standard and the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 AVC standard (formally, ISO/IEC 14496-10 - MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding) are jointly maintained so that they have identical technical content. H.264 is used in such applications as Blu-ray Disc, videos from YouTube and the iTunes Store, DVB broadcast, direct-broadcast satellite television service, cable television services, and real-time videoconferencing.

May want to try converti the file to MPEG or WMV format using a FREE program called SUPER.

I am sure you will find X3 likes MPEG2 files better than AVI and you will find editing a lot easier.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

City Builder says that he/she had to download the codec H264 separately, but why

Does X3 not provide this codec as part of the program

[Ken Berry]

Trevor -- I am pretty sure it does come with VS... so I too am at a loss to know why a download was necessary.