• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Blank “program view” window

  Posted by Andrew on April 17, 2005 at 11:12 am

  Hi there.

  I’m trying to edit an existing AVI movie in Premiere Pro 1.5.

  So far I’ve only ever used footage captured from my DVcam, and I’ve never had any problems editing that – this is the first time I’ve attempted to edit an existing source file, and I’ve hit a snag…

  I can play my individual movie clips in the Source View pane of the Monitor, but when I try to play the sequence from the timeline, I just see black (no sound either).

  I wondered if this might be a codec problem, or something, but then why would it work in one pane and not the other? Can anyone shed some light on this for me??

  Mike Velte replied 21 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mike Velte

  April 17, 2005 at 11:37 am

  There are several popular codecs like Dvix and Xvid that Pro cannot edit. You could use VirtualDub to decompress or recompress into another format, like Indeo or Cinepak.
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  Andrew

  April 17, 2005 at 12:14 pm

  Darn… It’s Xvid that I’m using. Seems strange that it works in one part of Premiere, but not another though… Still, I can change the codec easily enough. Is one format (Indeo/Cinepak) better than the other?

  Also, I’ve gone and pulled off clip instances from the original – if I replace it with the new codec version, will my instances survive?

  Appreciate the help.
  Andrew
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  Mike Velte

  April 18, 2005 at 11:19 am

  Indeo 5.10 is the latest of the legacy codecs.
  Not sure about your other question…do not understand.

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