magix movie maker 16 and H.264 codec?

greenmist schrieb am 11.12.2011 um 17:08 Uhr

I bought a new camcorder yesterday by Silvercrest, and it records its video's in AVI format, but it uses a H.264 codec.    I have tried opening its video files in magix movie maker 16, and all it does is just give me only 2 seconds of the video clip.   I also tried opening it up in sony vegas platinum 10, and all i get is only the audio of it, and even then its blank.

However, i can play them in windows media player, and i can open them up fine in windows live movie maker.   And i think i read on a website earlier that windows lock all their codecs, meaning that other programmes cannot borrow them.   So this makes me think that all of this is a codec problem.    And please dont suggest for me to download an ffsdshow codec (think thats its name?), i tried that already.   What i now have is the whole video file being able to appear in both magix and vegas, but i get black flashes in them sometimes.

Ive also tried emailing silvercrest themselves about it.   Ive also tried searching for and downloading a H.264 codec, but not been sucsessful, certainly not easy and straightforward as getting an xvid codec.

Kommentare

yvon-robert schrieb am 11.12.2011 um 19:50 Uhr

Hi,

Try to download the MX version this is more update for AVCHD or HD video. 2 things to remember: the video part and the sound part. If you see the video and the sound is not play because you lack a codec for the sound that is the reason you must download the last version more oriented towards HD and MP4 with H.264 codec.

Regards,

YR

johnebaker schrieb am 12.12.2011 um 00:41 Uhr

Hi

AVI is not a video format - an avi file is a container file format which can contain any video/audio format.

Use GSpot or MediaInfo to analyse a clip from the camera and determine which codecs you need GSpot will also tell you if the codec is installed on your computer.

John

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greenmist schrieb am 12.12.2011 um 17:39 Uhr

Thank you for your replies, and i have tried the suggestions.  Yvon-Robert, MX version of what please?, i didnt understand.   Is MX a type of codec or another version of magix movie maker?.  I typed in "mx version" on google and one seemingly relevent result sent me to a page on download.com for an mx geoforce type of thing that was placed onto the site in the year 2000.

Johnebaker, i tried both Gspot and mediainfo.   Gspot told me i had all the nessersary codecs for the file, obviously i dont where magix movie maker is concerned as i still get the same defect.   Mediainfo when i uploaded the file into it gave me a link button saying "go to website for nessersary codec", i did that, i downloaded the thing on offer from that site, and its a type of file called "bz2" that i cant even do anything with.   Thanks for your help guys, but nothings come avail from it.   Silvercrest have not emailed me back yet.   I just cant understand why they didnt think of supplying the codec nessersary for the file type on the instalation disk that comes with the camera, would of been a good idea.  The disk gave you a free basic movie editing programme by Arcsoft, but when you rip the cams file into a new file using it, you still get the same defect with it.   Looks like im going to have to take the cam back.