Fix Movie Studio Platinum 13 Importing MP4 Video and Audio Issues

Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum can assist you to make a special video from the fun moments captured by your smartphone or camera/camcorder by adding finesse, effects, a soundtrack or a title. The new version Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 13 now supports a broad variety of file formats including 4K XAVC S, stereoscopic 3D. What about the common MP4 file formats? First take a look at Movie Studio Platinum 13 supported import video audio formats from its official tech specification page.
Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, OGG, WMV
Audio formats: MP3, AAC, AA3, AIFF, WMA, WAV, FLAC

Movie Studio Platinum 13

From this tablet, we can see that Movie Studio 13 Platinum has native input support for MP4 files, however, people still encounter many unexpected problems when loading MP4 files to Movie Studio 13 Platinum as just below:

"I have an MP4 video file, I play it on windows media player or VLC plyer and it is as recorded, no problems. If I then drag it onto the timeline of Movie Studio Platinum 13 (latest build) the audio has clicks and pops that weren't there before (if rendered the clicks and pops remain). This doesn't happen with other file types. I have tried increasing playback buffer times as suggested by the live chat system, but this had no effect on the problem."

"I recently bought Movie Studio Platinum 13. I'm liking it so far but I can't import .mp4 files that I made with Premiere Elements. I've searched around this forum and tried a few fixes but nothing has worked. I've tried some different file extensions, updated my quicktime, and installed the x264vfw codec. This is really a big problem for me. Any suggestions are appreciated."

Why Movie Studio Platinum 13 not import MP4 or have audio issues

The main reason is due to the incompatible video or audio codec issue, it is well known that MP4 is a container file format which may contain various different video or audio codec listed as below:
Video codec: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (A)SP, H.264/MPEG-4, H.265/HEVC, VC-1/WMV, Real Video, Theora, Microsoft MPEG4 V2, VP8, MVC
Audio codec: MP3, WMA, AAC, AC-3, DTS,ALAC, DTS-HD

However, Movie Studio Platinum 13 only recognizes MP4 file compressed with MPEG-4 compression codec, if the MP4 file are encoded with unsupported video or audio codec, you will fail to open the file with the program or encounter some video or audio playback issues.

Transcode MP4 to Movie Studio Platinum 13 optimized format

To get any MP4 video played on Movie Studio Platinum 13, you will need to convert MP4 with unsupported video or audio codec to Movie Studio Platinum 13 readable video or audio file formats listed above. Here, you can get the job easily completed with a simple to use and reliable solution called Pavtube Video Converter ( best video converter review), apart from other program that only allows you to output Movie Studio Platinum 13 supported file formats, the program also does you a great favor to directly output MP4 to Movie Studio Platinum 13 or other Windows editing program like Sony Vegas Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Premiere Pro CC specially optimized editing formats - MPEG-2, so that you can directly load the files into the editing program without any profile parameter settings.

Apart from that, the program also has integrated built-in video editing packages for you to do some simple video editing on MP4 video. You can flip the video horizontally or vertically, rotate the video clockwise or counterclockwise to make the video displayed in a right angel, trim or cut the video to leave only your unwanted parts or segments, crop the video to zoom in the size area or change the output aspect ratio, personalize video with image/video/transparent text watermark, remove audio in video or replace audio in video, change video color effect like brightness, contrast, saturation or brightness or apply special rendering effect, add external srt/ass/ssa subtitle to mp4 video to make it more interesting.

How to Get MP4 Video Imported to Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 13?

Step 1: Load MP4 files into the program.

Run the program on your computer, on the main interface, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from folder" button to the program.

Step 2: Choose Movie Studio Platinum 13 best editing file format.

Click "Format" drop-down bar to select a proper video format. To edit MP4 videos in Movie Studio Platinum 13, "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2 (*.mpg)" is the most suitable one.

Step 3: Edit MP4 files.

Select an item on the main interface to activate the "Video Editor" function, in the opened video editor window, you can trim video file length, crop video file size, add watermark, apply special rendering effect, remove/replace audio in video or add external subtitles to video, etc.

Step 4: Start conversion.

After all the setting is completed, hit right-bottom "Convert" button to begin the conversion of MP4 files to Movie Studio Platinum 13 conversion process.

When the conversion is completed, you will have no problem to import converted files to Movie Studio Platinum 13 for editing.

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