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Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 Problems???? - BrandonScape Ok, so i open Sony Vegas Pro 8.0, but when i try to put a video clip in it, it freezes than shuts down... My screen recorder is Camtasia, and the file is .camrec, but it said it wasn't a compatible format, so i renamed it to .avi... Am i doing anything wrong, is it the wrong file?

Best Answer: The simple answer: a .camrec file isn't really a video file, it's more like an archive file (a .zip for example). The only program that understands this format is Camtasia Studio, period. The good news is that inside every Camrec file is an actual AVI file that contains the video you're after. If you have properly installed Camtasia Studio, you'll have integration in the Windows desktop, too. So if you right-click on a .camrec file, you should see an option to extract an AVI. That AVI is based on yet another priorietary thing, the TSCC video format. However, if installed correctly, that is a registered AVI type, and pretty much any WIndows video program can open it. Vegas handles video based on the standard Windows mechanisms. There are several "media wrapper" standards supported on most Windows computers. These including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Video for Windows (AVI), Quicktime (MOV), and a few others. All of these are structured formats that contain video, not the video format themselves. Any sort of format can live in any of these, though in the MPEG container structures, these are usually MPEG standard formats (not always, though). In AVIs, pretty much any kind of video or audio can live, but your computer won't understand it unless that type is registered with the OS, and includes a "CODEC" (CODer DECoder), which is like a device driver for a video or audio stream format. Given the structure of .camrec files, they are totally alien to all video programs other than Camtasia Studio. But they seem quite unnecessary.. see the Techsmith page referenced.. you can change Camtasia to output AVIs directly, rather than camrecs. Unless you're using Camtasia Studio, you probably want to do that. - Hazydave

Vegas and other editors don't know about .camrec files - have a look at the tutorial at the link. - iridflare

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