Importing DivX AVI into Premiere

Harm Millaard
July 4, 2006 at 5:52 pm

DON’T

DivX is not suitable for editing. Why import it into an NLE???

Harm Millaard
Aanarav Sareen
July 4, 2006 at 11:40 pm

[Gribble] “Is it possible to import DivX encoded AVI files into Premiere Pro 2?”

Premiere Pro or for that matter any other professional NLE doesn’t like highly compressed files such as DivX. Use something else.

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com
Mike Cohen
July 5, 2006 at 5:49 pm

Premiere likes DV-AVI.
Convert anything you get to that format.
The time spent waiting will save you time in the long run.
Chris King
June 30, 2014 at 8:50 am

Old post although I found the DivX is still not compatible with the latest version Adobe Premiere Pro. The basic reason is that DivX is a very heavily-compressed, delivery-only format, designed for decent quality, small file size, streaming media. For that sole purpose, they do a good job. They are NOT designed to be edited. To work with DivX files in Adobe Premiere Pro, you need to firstly convert DivX to Adobe Premiere Pro compatible file type.

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