import DV AVI file into PPro CC

[Tero Ahlfors]

Try setting the file permissions for the footage. You might get an import error if the OS doesn’t have permission to use the file.

[Brett Nelson]

I don’t think it’s a permissions issue. The files work without any trouble in PPro CS6 and QT on the same system. The same files also work without any trouble in PPro CC on my other system. The question is what driver do I need to have installed to have CC import/read a DV-codec AVI. It doesn’t seem like this should be this hard, especially for an app that’s cross-platform.

thanks,

Brett

BTW, funny exchange with one of the Adobe tech support people. He saw it was DV-codec AVI and he asked what camera I used to shoot it with. I said I had no idea, that the footage was 10 years old. He said, “You don’t know what camera? It’s ten years old?!” I guess his parents didn’t have a miniDV camcorder around the house when he was in grade school.

[Brett Nelson]

I just converted my DV-AVI in Squeeze to a DV .dv file. Still no go.

Brett

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Brett Nelson] “I don’t think it’s a permissions issue. “

Well can you even try to set the permissions? Even if you don’t think it’s the issue.

[Brett Nelson]

Tero,
Yes. I did try, but that did not solve it. I decided to take what should have been the obvious option, I transcoded. I used MPEG Streamclip and made DV QTs. I resisted doing this because it’s hours of footage, but it works. Also, I’m now suspecting that these are not mere mortal DV-AVIs. I am remembering that they were created 3 years ago by someone using Premiere Elements. They well may have had some strangeness wrapped in them that for some reason was viewable by other programs but not CC on this system.

Thanks for the input.

Brett

[Steve Brame]

You could use MediaInfo to confirm your suspicions.

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

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[Brett Nelson]

Steve,
I checked the clip with Mediainfo and nothing jumps out as unusual. It’s Sony DV codec, 720x480i, YUV. I just tried a JPEG AVI created from a still camera. That does not import either. Maybe my DV AVIs aren’t the problem after all.
I must have an app on the MacBook that reads AVIs which CC is using. I’ve tried to isolate which it might be. QT 7, MPEG Streamclip, VLC, DivX, Squeeze are all current versions on both systems. Again, I don’t have trouble viewing these AVIs with any program other than the ones in the CC suite.

Brett

[Mike Cohen]

Interesting issue to me, since we are about to go to CC and have terabytes of DV-AVI from Windows (captured from analog tape via Premiere 6.5 before our analog machines died).

Though we mostly use Windows, we do have some Macs.

Walter – any thoughts?

Mike Cohen

[Young Monica]

This often happens with AVI files that were created by digital still cameras or software that doesn’t correctly support the AVI standard. Plus, sometimes it doesn’t show video, only the audio with. Here is a possible solution for you: Transcode the AVI File to MPEG-2.
https://jacknjchn.tumblr.com/post/56121345839/how-to-open-and-edit-avi-files-in-adobe-premiere-pro