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Importing HDV mpeg files into AE7
Okay please don’t castrate me if this has been brought up, I searched as well as read through the FAQ and provided codec information.
I can’t capture HDV footage so I used my friend’s system. He captured from Premiere CS3 as an mpeg. I’ve never seen a program capture and edit in mpeg format, but whatever.
So I have an 8gig mpeg file. I took it home. After Effects 7 won’t open it. Figures. I tried converting it with WinAVI 9 to an AVI, but the program craps out after processing 11%. This has happened three times.
I split the files on output from WinAVI so I could see if I could import them into After Effects, and they work. I just can’t seem to convert the whole file.
Out of desperation, I tried installing Premiere CS3, but it won’t install because I don’t have an SSE2 expanded processor. And After Effects CS3 says the same thing.
Any advice?
Anyone have Adobe Premiere CS3 that might be able to identify the HDV mpeg codec and send it my way?
Anyone have a better file conversion program? Or trick to make AE7 like the mpeg file??
It’s frustrating when my computer can play the video, but AE7 doesn’t want to import it.
Thanks.
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I understand that now, despite reading another post where a user claimed to have figured out a way to do it.
I’ve tried transcoding the file with WinAVI, but WinAVI for one reason or another refuses to complete the operation. More importantly, what would be the best codec to edit HD footage on a PC? Is there an industry standard that I can install? I’ve browsed numerous sites, and feel like I should’ve answered this by now, but haven’t found anything that works.
Thanks for the quick response.
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Oh yeah, I’m expecting huge files and understand that reality. I’ve been tinkering with WinAVI all day, which doesn’t do MOV files.
I captured this large file on a friend’s machine in Premiere CS3, which I don’t have. I cannot bring the file into Premiere.
I’m going to try Apex Video Converter to transcode the file to the animation mov codec.
Thanks again for the info.
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Convert using “hdvxdv”? I’ve heard good things about it.
Try converting to Quicktime, Photo-JPEG, maybe.
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I’m using the Apex Video Converter to Quicktime Animation right now. It’s been going for three hours, the file is 47% done, and the size is 65gb already.
Niiiiice.
I’ll let you know how this turns out.
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I have the same SSE2 problem with Adobe applications. I have Premiere Pro 1,5 which dosnt support HDV capture, but you can capture usind Mainconcept pro HD mpg2 plug in for Premiere; this way you can capture hd in Your system, but premire will be very slow. As you already know AE7 wonnt recognize mpeg2 hdv file; this can be solved by exporting the mpeg2 hdv from premiere as TIFF sequence. after that AE wont have any problems with the tiff sequance. very quick way of working with hdv files in amd processors than dont support SSE2…
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Wow, this has been complicated. Whatever could go wrong, has.
The final file is 130gb.
For some reason, it’s only 29fps and there’s no audio. The more I think about how that’s even possible, the more it feels like my brain is melting.
Since I can’t edit in HD, I converted the file again to Microsoft DV and did an offline edit, then imported the Premiere project into AE and switched the footage to the HD stuff.
The footage looks great, but there’s some artifacts in the shadows of two shots. The original mpeg does not have these artifacts, so a re-transcoding of the whole thing might be necessary.
I need to find a better transcoding program.
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Okay folks, I’m back on this project (moved homes in interim).
I tried re-transcoding the mpeg file to an Animation Quicktime using Apex, and it’s no better. The compression is just too severe in some places, artifacts are present.
So I captured the footage again using Final Cut Pro. In fact, I have a FCP system at my disposal now, however I cannot edit on it or run AE on it. I must run AE on my PC.
So anyway, FCP and compressor has been completely useless for me. I have tried exporting the file through Quicktime, Compressor, or Quicktime conversion, getting various error messages the entire time. Compressor seems unable to export any file over 300mb. I get a lot of “file too big” errors, despite the hard drive being 930gb.
I don’t have a specific question, other than how. the. hell. do. you. get. this. to. work.
I’ve been going this kind of stuff for years now, never ran into anything so complicated for such a simple f’n task. I think God doesn’t want me to finish this or something.
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