Any Video Editing Wizards here?

[NewSilkTurtle]

I just installed the Feb. 26 2002 version of AVIEdit from http://www.am-soft.ru/aviedit.html and tried to use it to open an .AVI file. The file appears to open but all I can see is the file name and under that it says how many frames and the length of time the clip would play plus a number at the beginning and [YUY2] (whatever that means). If I click the mouse on either of those, a black horizontal strip appears. The moment I let off the mouse button, this strip disappears. I am using Windows 2000 and it's completely up-to-date. I also have VideoWave4 installed. The .avi files I am trying to work with were created using VideoWave4 in Windows 98, and I had no problem using AVIEdit with them in that OS (which I no longer have).

AVIEdit has a support forum but it seems to take forever to get an answer from them, and I usually don't understand what they say when they do reply. The last time they said "[YUY2] means the name (an unique identifier, or FourCC) of the codec that was used to compress your avi file. Clean Windows install offers a beggar set of outdated codecs, among others, there is no YUV2 codec available unless you add it for yourself. Many codecs are listed here by their IDs (four characters like YUV2 that you saw): http://www.webartz.com/fourcc/indexcod.htm You need to look for a download of the codec you want, and install it. Then hopefully things will go much better."

Well I visited that page and read it all, and still don't know what to do. Call me stupid but I don't even know what a codec actually is or how it functions. Could someone please tell me precisely what I need to do in order to have the right codec?

Thank you very much!

 

[scottrico]

goto vcdhelp tools
and download the nimo codex pack.
it is free and it will install to codex you need.
this is a great side to answer your questions.

hope that helps

 

[NewSilkTurtle]

Thanks, buddy - that does look like it will solve my problems. Especially after reading the comments in the Nimo Guestbook. Now if only I can get the file!! I tried twice and had the strangest result. The first time, I used Download Express, which is what I normally use to get files off the 'net. Well I didn't watch too closely on the progress of the download and when I looked, I saw that it was saying the download was 198% complete. I thought this was a bit weird so I just watched in amazement as it continued downloading the file for the third time in a row, going from 199% complete to 200%, right on to 201,202,203%, etc. Finally I just clicked on STOP and figured OK I must have the whole file now, and when I tried to start the installation, the error message says the download did not complete.... So I went back and used the download utility that comes with Windows instead. This time, the File Download window went all the way to 99% complete, Estimated Time Remaining: 2 seconds; and then the 99% complete title disappeared but the download continued for over an hour saying it has about 2 more seconds until it's complete.

:frown: And I have no idea what the devil is happening!

 

[scottrico]

yeah that file is hard to download sometimes.
it is real popular.
but alot of other sites have it also.
try using google


good luck

 

[NewSilkTurtle]

Well now in the meantime I found this little one and installed it and it solved the problem:

http://math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/huffyuv.html

Do you think I should still get the Nimo one too?