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Importing .avi (.xvid) audio only, basically no video
When I tried importing some downloaded movies to edit them for fun, I found out that the audio played perfectly but the video was no where to be seen. When I dragged it halfway and played it from there the opening logo of parumount mountain was shown but it lagged terribly. if I dragged it to the end of the film, the sounds of the credit music was playing, but it showed the opening of the movie.
+ I played it on my windows media player and it works fine, so I downloaded codex
+ I know that DIVX and XVID don’t mix well with CS4, I googled and searched this, but ppl have managed to get it to work
+Worst case I could try converting, but that takes more time
+I used gspot to locate what video type it is, and i have used .xvid four cc changer (dunno if i did it right)
So, any help?
If my last option is to convert, what do I convert my .avi, .xvid files too.
the picture below just shows that in windows media player at 40 min into the movie it is perfect, but upon viewing it in adobe it lags and is showing the first few minutes of the film.
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You need to transfer to a codec that Premiere Pro understands. And one codec that will work is “none” which is no compression.
It sounds like what you are doing is taking commercial DVDs and trying to edit them. And commercial DVDs use MPEG their codec. MPEG is not a good edit codec, as it sets up a scene with a P frame and then follows the scene with difference frames from then on until the next cut. It also may be a 24 frame-per-second film, where you have Premiere Pro set to create a 29.97 frame-per-second (NTSC) sequence.
Take what you need through a converter and happy editing. I realize this isn’t the answer you are looking for, but MPEG is not the best codec for an editing application.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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Alright I decided to use sony vegas pro 9.0 for now. A little dissapointed I liked adobe better but I just can’t work with adobe and its compatability issue.
Thanks for your response
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