Video format question / problem

Cubase
#1

Hi,

I thought I would check out the editable video function in C6. It works as expected, but annoyingly I can only load in .avi or .mov formats

.wmv and .mpg aren’t recognised!

To test that the videos were faultless, I went back to C4 and…you’ve guessed it, all 4 formats work fine.

So why now in C6 do I get “Invalid or not supported file!”?

It’s not a show-stopper as I can render a rough in more or less any format in Sony Vegas, but I would like to know what has happened? The manual is useless on this and a forum search brought nothing to the surface either.

Cheers for any help

P.

#2

The new video engine was introduced in Cubase 5 & uses quicktime …it won’t work with mpg but I’m pretty sure you can download a free wmv codec for quicktime.

#3

Thanks Grim, I jumped over C5 and so must have missed that change. I guess the new video implementation is an improvement, it always seemed a bit flaky to me before. I’ll just pre-render any videos to Qt in future.

P.

#4

Use Mpegstreamclip which is free and will convert anything to a Cubase friendly format.


Rob

#5

Hello.

please also have a look to this knowledge base article about the new video engine

Cheers,

Chris

#6

Thanks Leggy, I’ll go and look at Mpeg Streamclip.

Thanks also to Chris for pointing me to the knowledge base article, which does a good job of explaining the reasoning behind the changes. Maybe a little more by way of explanation in the manual would be useful?

In general terms C6 seems very stable here, no crashes in first month of use, impressive!

P.