• Adobe Premiere Pro

  How can I identify a file format eg widescreen etc?

  Posted by Dougie Campbell on January 18, 2011 at 11:39 am

  A friend of mine is sending me a file this afternoon(AVI) for me to edit in Premiere Pro CS3.He can’t remember whether he shot it in widescreen/HD or not.Is there a way I can identify the file’s original format so that I can import it into the correct Premiere session?

  I’m bit of a novice I know but thanks for your help!

  Ann Bens replied 15 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Greg Brand

  January 18, 2011 at 12:34 pm

  You should be able to right click, show properties on the clip or I normally open the clips in Quicktime and cmd/crtl + i to show the clip properties, as quicktime does give you the aspect ratio, bit rate, fps and codec that was used.
  otherwise you can also import the clip into prem and simply drag it onto the “new item” icon in your project folder. that should automatically create the right sequence settings for that specific clip. (not sure if this is possible in Prem cs3 but give it a try)

  hope that helps

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  Ann Bens

  January 18, 2011 at 10:52 pm

  HD is always widescreen no other flavour.
  If you want to know upfront run the file through MediaInfo.
  https://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/nl
  Otherwise import into Premiere and read the info next to the preview window in the Project Panel. If you made the wrong project settings, make a new Project and import the old one.

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