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Hit and Miss Video Imports
A client was just here with some internal animations on a jump drive. He just wanted to string them together with some minor editing. One of the videos, a 640×360 AVI (don’t know the codec) is a white screen when dragged into the timeline. The video specs appear fine, correct size, duration etc…. The clip on the timeline is the correct length. I just get a white box instead of seeing the video.
Then I endure the client’s quips about Windows and Bill Gates….if I had a Mac, yada, yada.
When I play the clip directly, it comes up fine in Windows Media Player. So Media Player is happy with it, PPro isn’t.
This is on my Sager Quad Core notebook. I get the same result on my Win7 x64 Pro Boxx with a Quadro4000. If I drop the clip to the new item icon to have it automatically generate a timeline for the clip, I get the same result.
This is the second time something like this has happened. Just a bug in the software or something else?
Vista x64 Ultimate, 5.03 PPro.
Buck Wyckoff
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5 Replies
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Hi Buck,
Quick question, have you tried converting the file to your projects specs using Quick Time Pro or anything else before importing? Just a thought. Sometimes when I get weird imports that play good on a player, this is what I do.Thanks,
Peter O’NeillMac Pro ’08
2 x 3GB Quad Core Intel Xeon
14GB 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1024MBMac OS Lion 10.7.2
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Hi Buck,
Quick question, have you tried converting the file to your projects specs using Quick Time Pro or anything else before importing? Just a thought. Sometimes when I get weird imports that play good on a player, this is what I do.Thanks,
Peter O’NeillMac Pro ’08
2 x 3GB Quad Core Intel Xeon
14GB 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1024MBMac OS Lion 10.7.2
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I can do something like that I suppose. I have ProCoder and Cleaner on another machine. I just thought PPro was good at sucking up everything. My dumb ole media player can take it in, why not PPro?
Perhaps 5.5 solved this? I didn’t want to pony up for the upgrade back when. I thought I’d wait for 6.
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Here is a good start to your question about AVI files…..not too friendly sometimes.
https://www.thexlab.com/faqs/avidivx.html
Thanks,
Peter O’NeillMac Pro ’08
2 x 3GB Quad Core Intel Xeon
14GB 800MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1024MBMac OS Lion 10.7.2
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Perhaps this avi is compressed with the divx codec, and this type of avi files don´t work well in PP. Converting it to other format will be your best chance, avi DV for example. I work with Procoder3, but you could do this with any freeware like Mpeg Streamclip or Media Coder.
Regards
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