How to Import and Edit Fraps Video in Sony Vegas Pro 13/12/11/10 Smoothly

Fraps, an universal Windows utility, is free to use for frame rate display and benchmarking, and free to use with limitations for video capture (30 second time limit, watermark) and screen capture (BMP format only). Thanks to its power and splendid features, it has gained high praise with a large number of users, especially for those game enthusiasts. However, the biggest problem is that the Fraps recorded video in AVI extension with lossless compression and quite large size, making it hard to handle with most editing software including Sony Vegas, here are some common quoted issues on forums between Fraps recordings and Sony Vegas:

"Okey, I use fraps to record WoW Footage at 1920x1080 (1080p) Full sized. I then use Sony Vegas to render the video, but somehow it's not getting that good of a quality. Does anyone know how to solve this or what to do? Is it something wrong that I'm doing with Sony Vegas or Fraps? Please help me mates ?."

"Every time I try to put a Fraps recording into Sony Vegas, it comes up with this error message - 'None of the files dropped on Vegas Pro could be opened.'. Any answers appreciated, contact me or ask in your reply for any more info :)"

"When importing Eve fraps footage into Sony Vegas i have a slight problem. The footage is working fine in the preview box, however when u place it into a movie it simply appears blank (black background, music continuing in the background etc.). Anyone any idea as to why this is happening? I have fraps version 2.0."

As we mentioned above, Fraps is fine for capture videos with AVI file extension, but it has always been a problematic format to edit on NLEs. In other words, the Fraps AVI videos are not ideal for editing in Sony Vegas Pro (Vegas Pro 13 included). In order to fix these issues, the easy and effective workaround is to transcode Fraps AVI files to a Sony Vegas more friendly MPEG-2 format. In this case, a professional third-party program is desperately required for you!

Here Brorsoft Video Converter would be your great choice for encoding Fraps AVI videos to Sony Vegas as it offers professional codec MPEG-2. Moreover, the best video conversion tool can also help you convert AVI, MKV, WMV as well as MTS, MXF, MOD, VOB, MPG, etc. video files for smoothly importing and editing in various non-linear editing systems (NLE), including Sony Vegas, Pinnacle Studio, Adobe Premiere Pro, Cyberlink PowerDirector, Avid Studio, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Windows Movie Maker and more.

Read More: How to edit Fraps video in Windows Movie Maker

Convert Fraps recording for Sony Vegas Pro 11/12/13

Step 1: Install and run the Fraps to Sony Vegas converter, and then click the "Add" button to import the .Fraps AVI videos to the program. If you want to merge Fraps AVI clips, just need to check the "Merge into one" box.

Step 2: Click "Format" bar to determine output format. Follow "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" and select "MPEG-2(*.mpg)" as the output format. Besides, you can also choose WMV (VC-1) (*.wmv) if you want to get a relatively smaller output file.

Tip: You can adjust video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., in the Profile Settings.

Step 3: Click "Convert" button to convert Fraps AVI to Sony Vegas Pro.

Once the conversion done, you can click "Open" button to get the output files effortlessly. Now you have got it right, just to import and edit Fraps AVI files with Sony Vegas Pro 10/11/12/13 at ease.