Sony Vegas pro video recognition?

I put some avi files in vegas pro and all it does is read the audio and no video. what should i do?

NOTE: for some reason it only does this with the files from my new digital camera and the camera manual states that it takes video in MPEG-4 but on my computer they show up as avi.

The video you are importing must be of a type that is not supported by the codecs of Vegas. This is common with video from digital cameras and digital camcorders that record to a hard drive. AVI is just a wrapper. The actual contents of the file can vary depending on what camcorder or digital camera created the video.

You will most likely have to convert the file to a type that is recognized by Vegas. See if it plays in Windows Movie Maker (Start>Programs>Windows Movie Maker). If it does, you can use WMM to convert the file for you. Just put the file in WMM, then select Make Movie - Save to my computer - Select the location for the conveted file - for Movie Setting, try "Other Settings" and try "Video for local playback (2.1 Mbps NTSC) and see how the resultant file plays and looks in Vegas. It might take a long time for the conversion to run.

Your other option would be to add a codec to Vegas that recognizes the file you have. To find out what you have, you will need a file analyzer such as GSpot available free from http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpo... Once you know what you have, you then will have to search the www.free-codecs.com site for a codec. If it is a MJPEG file, there are no free codecs for that type of file. You'll have to buy one from Morgan Multimedia for $20 at http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/.