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MPEG-4 –> useable footage?
Short version: What’s the best way to get MPEG-4 footage into a timeline with standard, uncompressed NTSC DV footage.
Long version: My uncle was recording my sister’s wedding, but he had to switch batteries in the middle of my mom’s speech. Fortunately, somebody in the audience was rolling a tiny digital camera that supposedly shoots “HD” footage (it looks terrible).
The footage is compressed and we are having a hard time getting it to play in the timeline in Premiere Elements. My uncle says: “I can change the aspect ratio using the anamorphic setting and I can play around with other settings and get a picture to display when the clip is paused, but when it plays, it’s just a jumble of large, colorful, random pixels.”
My uncle only has Premiere Elements. I have Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, so if the solution would require either of those, then we can swing that.
Any suggestions?
Nate Hanson
Pilothouse Films -
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Damn those “HD” handhelds!!! Can you get your hands on the software to do the conversion yourself? What type of camera is it?
We came into this same problem with a JVC “HD” mini handheld. It records its own file format that no program could read. However if we renamed the file to sometime like “.mpg” premiere could read it.
Try renaming it to .avi and .mpg if that’s the issue with “weird” file formats.
Tim Robinson
tim@erobinsons.com
Pride-Mobility-Products
Corporate Video Editor
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