Can .mkv files be edited on the Vegas Timeline ?

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plainman007

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Can .mkv files be edited on the Vegas Timeline ?

.mkv is basically matroska encoding ? Some say its a blu-ray file type, is this true ? What basic method of encoding is it ? Mp4 ?

Would be helpful if members could share some light...

Thanks
 
It's a container format like .avi or .mov , and can hold many different kinds of audio , video, subtitle streams

It can be used to hold blu-ray type video (h.264, or vc-1) , but not necessarily.

Vegas does not support .mkv container. Depending on what is inside, you can sometimes multiplex it into a different container for import (e.g. transport stream like .m2ts using tsmuxer). If you don't know what streams are being used, try mediainfo. Another option that sometimes works is to frameserve in using avisynth and makeavis or avs2avi
 
Hi,

Ive tried m2ts files and vegas doesnt accept them on the timeline.
I will try downloading media info right away.
I didnt quite understand your last suggestion...frameserve using avisynth. My system has avisynth installed. But avisynth is more like a plugin right ? and how do i use it with makeavis or avs2avi ? Can you please explain a little further....

Thanks in advance.
 
avisynth is a powerful video scripting language and frameserver

"makeavis" is an avi wrapper function that makes a "dummy" avi out of your .avs script. To vegas or any other program, it looks like a normal avi video. It comes with ffdshow

When you frameserve you eliminate the need for a huge lossless intermediate file (e.g a lagarith or huffyuv intermediate). The .avs script and .avi dummy wrapper are only a few kb big

If you've ever used debugmode frameserver with vegas, it's sort of the same thing except instead of exporting, this is for importing

A "last resort" type option would be to re-encode to a format that vegas likes (e.g. lossless intermediate, or cineform etc....)

If you provide the text output from mediainfo , I might be able to provide other suggestions
 
Find a way to re-wrap h.264 MKV in h.264 AVI, without re-encoding, and then the latest ffdshow-tryout can read that format. MP4/MOV can also work, although all these formats are slow to edit on Vegas anyway.
 
Demux your elementary streams with mkvextract, and assuming you have h.264 video (again check mediainfo), you can use avc2avi to re-wrap into avi container. If you want .mp4 container, you can use mp4box (yamb is the gui). Not sure about vegas7, but these methods work with 8/9.

If your video is interlaced, neither avi or mp4 container will work very well; transport stream works best
 
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