magix movie maker 16 and H.264 codec?

greenmist wrote on 12/11/2011, 10:08 AM

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.

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yvon-robert wrote on 12/11/2011, 12:50 PM

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 wrote on 12/11/2011, 5:41 PM

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 wrote on 12/12/2011, 10:39 AM

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.