VV3 Unable to view/edit matrox AVI???

pugsly1011 wrote on 4/9/2002, 1:40 PM
I do some freelance work in a studio. They use Speedrazor on two stations and just bought a third station for vegas. The systems have a matrox capture card, unsure of model. When I used speedrazor to capture video as an AVI file, vegas would not open the file. It could see it, but would not preview or pull into timeline. The wav file for the audio was fine. One of the other techs said something about the matrox capture card using a specific type of AVI from matrox vs a "windows standard". I know SOFO works with Matrox, and pairs reatly with the dualhead capability, but whats the deal with these avis??

The studio bought vegas after I raved about it, at a fraciton of the cost of another workstation for speedrazor, and wanted to do rough cuts on vegas and polish and finalize on speedrazor (also due to, from what they said, limited plugins for vv3, like Boris, etc)

any ideas???

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Veasna wrote on 4/9/2002, 3:40 PM
Most probably, the matrox uses MJPEG compression for the AVI file and VV3 can decompress the video stream unless you have some sort of MJPEG decompressor installed on your system. Try download the trial version of Morgan MJPEG codec and see if this will solve your problem.

Good lukc,
-Veasna
pdmath wrote on 4/9/2002, 7:58 PM
The RT200 which I have makes separate avi and wave files for its use. Matrox does provide Tools to convert the RT2000 files into standard avi's which you can then use in Vegas.

It should be in the programs bar under Matrox...called Matrox file convertor.

Of course, this all depends on if the system with Speedrazoe is an RT2000 or 2500 or not.
InformationSponge wrote on 4/10/2002, 7:41 AM
Matrox doesn't use MJPEG, it uses a digital format similar to MPEG. Use pdmath's suggestion, that should get you up and running.