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importing .MP4 files into CS3
I just bought a Sony Cybershot DSC-T900 that gererates .MP4 files at 720P but they won’t import into Premiere CS3 with any of the presets. Anyone have a solution? Thanks! Larry
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As for any such format, the easiest is to get a copy of QuickTime Pro and convert to QT Animation.
Still waiting for a call from Apple on that commission thing…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Thanks Vince- Do you know if CS4 will import MP4 files directly?
By the way, I’m sure Apple will call and there’s going to be world peace and all the starving children will be fed! Lar
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Yeah, not sure about the kids, but I’m counting on that call…
There are many flavors of mp4, as well as different ways to encode it.
Even if it were to import correctly, I would do a test export right away to make sure that all works as well.
I know Quicktime Animation or Motion Jpeg import every time without any issues.
The H.264 version of Mp4 should work as well.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Hey, i just figured out a solution to your problem… i have the Sony t90 which also records 720p…
To import it into premiere, change the file extension to .mov — it is slow in premiere, but it works!
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Hi, I am trying to do an edit with .mpg files. Premiere Pro CS3 didn’t like them, so I used Streamclip to convert them to .mp4 files. They import and open fine in CS3, but the video is very slow. I tried changing a file extension to .mov, but CS3 wouldn’t open it. I can’t convert them to QuickTime as I’m using a work computer and can’t load QT on it. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks …
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Thanks very much John Brinks !
I’ve been struggling for days to find a solution.
I just changed my .mp4 into .mov
…and it works !I’ll finally be abble to edit the movie I longed to create.
(I read somewhere else to change the .mp4 into .avi , but this didn’t work on my CS3)
Thanks a lot John.
Arnaud
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Thanks very much John Brinks !
I’ve been struggling for days to find a solution.
I just changed my .mp4 into .mov
…and it works !I’ll finally be abble to edit the movie I longed to create.
(I read somewhere else to change the .mp4 into .avi , but this didn’t work on my CS3)
Thanks a lot John.
Arnaud
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I’ve run into this same problem in the past and again today trying to work with a downloaded youtube video in .mp4.
Spent easily a couple of hours trying to find a plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 (according to their online help, it is supposed to be able to import .mp4 … subject to a cryptic note about possibly needing the right plugin to do it). No luck finding it though.
I eventually downloaded a trial version of a converter here:
https://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-import-mp4-to-premiere.html
but this trial version has a 5 minute limit for source videos over 5 minutes and limits the conversion to half of the video for videos under 5 minutes. Ok for testing their product I guess. Not so for project work obviously. It did work but did crash once or twice.
I’d seen another post somewhere suggesting to try changing the file extension to other mp4-ish formats (i can’t recall which but they weren’t .mov) in any case, they wouldn’t import into PP CS3.
Miraculously, it seems, changing the file extension from .mp4 to .mov did allow me to import the clip into PP CS3.
A note of caution however, and I suspect this is inherent in the efficiency of mp4 vs mpeg2, exporting the mov file back out of PP CS3 say as an AVI file creates massive files. The original youtube file as an 3m40sec mp4 was approx 92 MB. The same clip, has taken over 30 minutes to export as an avi and is only about half done and is already close to 500 MB.
Clearly I’m not approaching this with the right codecs or even the right way.
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