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Importing transcoded XAVC footage in Premiere
I’m currently trying to edit some FS5 footage that I did not shoot. However, the person who did imported the XAVC files into Final Cut before giving them to me and converted them to .mov. It seems they were just re-wrapped, but when I try to import them into Premiere CC 2017, I get the “codec missing or unavailable” error message. I tried to convert the files but they are not even recognised by Handbrake. The other solution would be to edit with Final Cut Pro, but the workflow is very different and the edit should be completed fairly soon. Unfortunately he no longer has the original XAVC files. Any ideas on how to solve this?
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8 Replies
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Hi Mirko,
That person should absolutely have kept the raw footage, but if they didn’t.
I’m guessing you’re on Windows. FCP re-encodes to Prores, which is likely not installed on your machine.
Try this first, close Premiere, download/install Quicktime, then try to open the footage in Quicktime, if it needs Prores, it should guide to downloading it. Reopen Premiere and you should now be able to import the footage.
Apple used to have a download page for the codec, but I can no longer find it.
Vince Becquiot
San Francisco Bay Area
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There’s native Prores/Quicktime support in Premiere. That said they have deprecated some codecs from Quicktime when they have made their own decoder/encoder. Open the file in Quicktime and see what the file info says about the video track.
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Hi Vince, I probably should’ve mentioned I’m on a Mac. Looking at the footage, it’s got an XAVC codec with a .mov wrapper. Surprisingly, Premiere can’t open it, despite it in theory being able to…
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This is what Quicktime tells me about the file. I think something went wrong in FCP when transcoding (though actually we-wrapping) it, since this isn’t ProRes, but also not the original file (they have “Clip000x” names). I edited with proxies he made through FCP, all that’s left to do now is replace those with the original files, but I get a “the importer reported a generic error” message… Very strange.
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Then it’s probably some proprietary mystery codec that only Apple uses.
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Hi there, I need help with FCP. I am working on FCP 7 and I may have messed up my settings now I receive an error message when I try edit to tape that says The selected audio and video devices may not match: -Apple FireWire Pal (720×576) -Default.
Any idea how I can solve this.
Thanks,
Chris
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It’s all very weird, he ended up transcoding it all into ProRes through FCP and it works now!
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