• Adobe Premiere Pro

  mp4’s and Premiere

  Posted by Veranda Rare on October 16, 2006 at 4:31 pm

  As far as I can tell, Premiere really dislikes mp4’s. Not only is it impossible to import mp4’s into Premiere, but it seems to not like any file that I’ve converted from an mp4 into something else; even an Avi. It’s somewhat frustrating.

  Here’s what I did:

  I ripped some footage off of a dvd onto a mac using Mac the Ripper. Then I brought the VOB files through a program called OpenShiiva (also on the mac), which made them mp4’s. Since Premiere wasn’t interested in those, I exported them in Quicktime Pro to mov’s. When I tried bringing those into Premiere, it appears to have randomly changed the frame rate of those files to something little (like 1.87 frames a second, or so). Then I tried exporting avi’s from Quicktime Pro, and when I bring them into Premiere, the audio is there, but the video is nothing but black.

  So something funky’s going on here. It’s either; a setting in Premiere, a setting in Quicktime Pro, mp4’s are poopy, macs and pc’s don’t get along, or maybe I need to figure out another way to rip this dvd.

  Any ideas would be awesomely appreciated…

  Thanks

  Veranda Rare replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steven L. gotz

  October 16, 2006 at 5:18 pm

  Try ripping the DVD to a DV AVI (Type2) using a PC.

  But there is no reason that a standard Quicktime codec can’t be played smoothly on the PC.

  Steven
  https://www.stevengotz.com
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  Veranda Rare

  October 16, 2006 at 5:57 pm

  Do you know of a program that can rip dvd’s straight to dv avi?

  The weird thing is that these same files playback fine in Quicktime (on pc or mac). It seems to be just in the way Premiere deals with them.

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