imported video not playing but can hear sound..

[Brian Louis]

There are all types of AVI files, you need to identify where it came from and what it is, you can download g-spot from the net and use it to identify the file type.

[Ann Bens]

I’ll bet its divx: no good in Premiere.
Convert something Premiere likes: dv-avi.

[Mohanraj Narayanan]

I used Gspot and The avi is AVI v1.0 and it’s a motion MPEG.

it plays well in windows media player.

additionally the program is extremely laggy and sometimes does not respond to my clicking. I will record my desktop for you guys and post it here. thanks

[Mohanraj Narayanan]

the avi was shot from a nikon digital picture camera it the professional still digital camera. I ran gspot and the avi files are AVI v1.0. they are Motion JPEG files. In addition, premiere lags and sometimes freezes when I work with these files. these avi videos play fine in windows media player though. is this because I have windows 7 on my computer? I will record my desktop and post it here so you know what exactly I’m talking about.

[Andy Prada]

If you open the file in Media Encoder (forget Premiere) will it preview?

If so try converting it to the format in which you want to edit in Premiere. Then import to Premiere.

[Ann Bens]

Sorry about that, when there is no video is’t usually a uneditable format.
Download the trial mjpeg codec from Mainconcept, that will solve your problem.
https://www.mainconcept.com/products/sdks/video/motion-jpeg.html

[Mohanraj Narayanan]

Hi,

thank you all for posting. I am having problems even with avi files that are recorded by camtasia. camtasia is a desktop video capture tool. I recorded my activities on the desktop with this tool and saved it as avi because that is the only format available in this tool. I then imported it into premiere. the video was playing with sound but the screen was black but some elements of the video was showing. I have no idea what is going on. i will post the videos here. thanks again..

[Jon Barrie]

The camtasia codec used to work in ppro, but I think they altered it so you need to go through their editing package.

I just export the whole thing with into an avi with H.264 codec and edit in ppro that way or do it all in camtasia.

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[Mohanraj Narayanan]

here is the video of the avi captured from the nikon digital camera and imported into premiere. notice how the video is frozen in the first frame but the video play head is progressing and the video sounds play.

I recorded my desktop with camtasia and saved it as avi as this is the only output format supported by camtasia. I then imported it into premiere. the video is playing with sound but the screen is black and only some elements of the video show through.

[Andy Prada]

Am I correct in that your file is 1280 x 720 (1.0) aspect ratio? What FPS is it running? – looks jerky as hell to me.

Stuff very often works in Media Player. The question is: Is it editable? Clearly not for CS4. I repeat my original post – try opening in Media Encoder and see if it will convert to a DV avi file format (That’s the preset you have chosen to edit with.)

As a by the way..you might wish to upgrade to CS4 4.2 software – there are a number of improvements.