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wwindrider wrote on 2/10/2019, 2:44 PM

This is quite old but 7 years later I have the same question. I found the website (https://fileinfo.com/extension/cpi) where they say that Magix Vegas Pro 15 can open this file. I am running Movie Studio 15.0 Platinium and can't see how I could open, read or find out what information is hidden in this file. I understand that my version of Vegas Studio is not "pro" but why would Sony camcorder create the file that only professionals could use? Can anybody help to answer this?

OldSmoke wrote on 2/10/2019, 2:51 PM

This is quite old but 7 years later I have the same question. I found the website (https://fileinfo.com/extension/cpi) where they say that Magix Vegas Pro 15 can open this file. I am running Movie Studio 15.0 Platinium and can't see how I could open, read or find out what information is hidden in this file. I understand that my version of Vegas Studio is not "pro" but why would Sony camcorder create the file that only professionals could use? Can anybody help to answer this?

And what would you do with the information or what do you expect Vegas software to do with it?

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Eagle Six wrote on 2/10/2019, 3:01 PM

@ingvarai download the free app Mediainfo here: https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

Start Mediainfo, select the 'View' tab and from the drop down select 'Text' mode. Then click on the 'File' tab and load your source media AVCHD file. Mediainfo will report the specifications of your file with similar data as the CPI and probably a lot more.

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wwindrider wrote on 2/18/2019, 12:09 PM

Thank you for the link Eagle, this is very nice small utility.

Marco. wrote on 2/18/2019, 1:04 PM

CPI files are no video files but very small (usually 1 kB) description files which contain some video meta data, used by some hardware devices. So these files cannot be used as video clips by video applications except of a few software players which emulate hardware players.
For video applications you need the MTS files (which belong to the CPI files). MediaInfo reads this meta data file but it's useless without the MTS video files (even for hardware or software players).

The information of that file extension website is wrong.