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Originally Posted by TheWolfe 
Well I've read up on it and apparently the idea is:
Vegas = Professional, high end
avi videos = Not professional, not high end
Some avi's work, but most have an error with identification where Vegas only recognizes the audio. So when trying to add effects to Clerks, all I get is the audio. Pretty annoying.
I'll try your suggestion.
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The AVI isn't a video format but a container. The video track inside (and the audio track also) can be encoded with several codecs. When you play it on windows, the media player reads the type of encoding and search the OS for the 2 requested codecs (video and audio). If the requested codecs aren't available on your pc, the player isn't capable to show it (video, audio or both).
I don't know Vegas very well, but if it doesn't use the OS installed codecs (but use own codecs), installing the missing codecs on the PC doesn't help.
If it uses the OS codecs, all that you need is to install the missing codec.
In order to check what's the problem, try to play the video with the Windows Media Player. If you can see it, Vegas doesn't uses OS codecs. If you can't see the video also with the media player, try to install the missing codec on the OS.
You can discover what is the used codec reading the video with the
GSpot free program.