Why won't my video show the audio?

Sony Vegas Wont Show Video Only Audio, How do I get it to show the video?

• I have uploaded videos from limewire, and mega upload, and some other sites like that. Mostly mega upload wont allow me to see the video, it only plays audio. It has been driving me crazy. How do I get sony vegas to show video?!!!!

• Answer:

  The reason why Vegas won't play the clips properly is because you're trying to open a format that it doesn't support. You could for instance have an AVI file with DivX video and MP3 audio and have another AVI with Indeo video and PCM audio. Now, what all those things are doesn't matter. You need to either convert your video to a format that Vegas will understand (losing some quality in the process) or update Vegas to be able to read your file. To go with the conversion approach just try one of the billions of video conversion programs out there. There's so many that I can't recommend a particular one. To be able to take your existing clip into Vegas, you'll need to identify the sub-format of the video. This is called a codec. You'll need to identify which codec the video uses. I'd suggest a tool like G-Spot to be able to identify the format. This website shows exactly how to use GSpot: http://www.moviecodec.com/solutions/how-to-identify-the-codec-of-a-video-file-61931/ Chances are your video is in DivX or Xvid format and there is a way to import these into Vegas. Rather than detail all the steps here, I'll point you at this webpage which has detailed video explanations for the two different methods. http://eslabs.blogspot.com/2008/01/editing-xvid-video-in-sony-vegas-8.html