• Adobe Premiere Pro

  AVID DNX Files in Premiere CS 5.5

  Posted by Alvin Lowery on November 23, 2012 at 2:30 pm

  Can you import and edit Avid DNX Files in Premiere CS 5.5?

  Ryan Holmes replied 13 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Angelo Lorenzo

  November 23, 2012 at 7:46 pm

  Natively, no. Avid does have a Quicktime codec for DNxHD available here https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Download/en392959

  You’ll need to rewrap your MXF files to Quicktime to avoid reencoding them. I would imagine that Avid has a command for this (Avid is a decent sized hole in my knowledge). FFMPEG and FFMBC can rewrap video, but freak out over AAF audio.

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  Ryan Holmes

  November 24, 2012 at 10:18 pm

  You cannot import DNxHD MXF files natively, as Angelo states.

  You can import DNxHD mov files after you install the free codecs from Avid. I believe Avid Quicktime Codecs LE 2.3.7 is the latest from Avid: https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Download/en423319

  You’ll need to re-wrap the MXF files to mov for Premiere to ingest them.

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  Tom Hoopengardner

  January 30, 2013 at 3:52 am

  I’m using Premiere CS5 with Windows Vista. I need to edit DNXHD files. I can’t import them directly into Premiere CS5, so I try downloading the Avid codecs. Then what? Still can’t import the files. What does it mean to rewrap them? I need idiot-proof guidance.

  TomHoop
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  Ryan Holmes

  January 30, 2013 at 8:52 pm

  Tom you probably ought to start a new thread for your question. This a 2 month old thread that you’re posting to.

  Per your question the Avid MXF files have to be transcoded to a Quicktime Movie file and then brought into Premiere Pro. The Quicktime Movie file can use whatever codec you want – DNxHD, ProRes, Uncompressed, etc. Premiere Pro handles most codecs without much issue. To transcode the footage I think Adobe Media Encoder will handle it (don’t quote me on that though).

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