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Convert Webm to Sony Vegas Pro for Further Editing

WebM is a video format presented by Google in 2010 and intended to replace the H.264/MPEG-4, which is not only used by popular Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers to display the video, but is also planned to be built into the Adobe Flash technology. High quality and popularity of a format were evaluated by YouTube.com video portal which already supports WebM as the format for video clips. Eager to import WebM videos into Sony Vegas Pro for further editing?

However, you'll be disappointed since WebM is not supported by Sony Vegas and there is no WebM codec for Sony Vegas. Namely, you cannot import and edit WebM files in Sony Vegas Pro directly. So how? Follow this tutorial, you will get the simplest way to transcode WebM to Sony Vegas Pro for further editing.

Best way to convert Webm to Sony Vegas Pro 

From Sony Vegas Pro Supported File Formats list, we know that Sony Vegas Pro does not support WebM format. To transfer WebM videos to Sony Vegas Pro for editing smoothly, the easy workaround is to convert WebM to a more editing-friendly format, such as MPEG-2. To save you time, Pavtube Video Converter is highly recommended to help you fulfill the task on Windows. It can convert any video and audio files to Sony Vegas Pro, also compress unsupported 4K video for Sony Vegas Pro when you are runing a low-end computer that can't handle 4K video.

Edit Webm files by trimming/merging/splitting/cropping

Wish to do some simple video editing work before loading Webm files into Sony Vegas Pro? With the program's built-in video editing functions, you can merge separate video into one, split large video files into small ones by file size, count or length, crop video to remove the black edges around the video frame, trim or cut video to leave only your unwanted parts, add video/image/transparent text watermark to video, etc.

Now follow its step-by-step instruction below to learn how to encode WebM files to MPEG-2 for Sony Vegas Pro.

Note: If you are a Mac user, then WebM Video Converter Mac is your first choice which offers various output formats for editing tools, such as FCP, iMovie, FCE, Avid .etc.

How to encode Webm files to Sony Vegas compatible format

Step 1. Add WebM files

Drag WebM files to the program directly. Or go to the “File” menu, choose “Add Video/Audio” to locate the WebM files you want to transcode. You can add several files to do batch conversion.

Step 2. Choose the Output Format 

After the aforementioned stuff, all you need to do now is to convert Webm format. As for Sony Vegas Pro, "MPEG-2 (*.mpg)" from "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" are best format for editing. 

Profile Settings Tips:

In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click "Settings" button and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 3. Convert Webm to Sony Vegas Pro

Click “Convert” button, it will start transcoding WebM files to MPEG-2 for Sony Vegas Pro immediately.

When the conversion task is finished, click "Open" button to get the exported files. Now you have got it right, just to import and edit WebM files in Sony Vegas Pro at ease.

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