Premiere1.5 wont import my AVI??

Rick Meyer

Rick Meyer

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Hey gang!

I need to re-piece together portions of a completed wedding video. Foolishly, I did not save a backup AVI version. So, I downloaded MPEG Streamclip 1.0 to help me convert the MPEG dvd version to an AVI. Thing is, when I view it in Windows Media Player, it looks fantastic despite the compression. I'm very impressed. However, Premiere Pro 1.5 will not let me import the newly created AVI.

It doesn't even give me an error message. It does nothing. Or it will open up that little Importing Footage box and the box will just hang there. Any ideas please?

Rick
 
Perhaps the .avi codec you used is not supported by Premiere. There's nothing much you can do about that. If you don't want to edit in MPEG then why not use Premiere itself to export an uncompressed .avi for you?
 
Well, if would edit in MPEG if I could. Unless I can and just dont know it.

I exported this final project (which was an AVI at the time) to a DVD as an MPEG...if I open up the DVDs folders, its represented as VOB files...premiere will not let me bring that in....
 
holy. im an idiot.

thanks jade...what you said, "if you dont want to edit in MPEG"...triggered a thought... I went back to copy and pasted a VOB file directly from the DVD to a folder on my hard drive and simply changed the extension to MPEG and voila...turned it into a recognizable avi logo and was importable.

thanks so much. what a friggin' relief.
 
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