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Old AVI files — unsupported codec
I made some hi-def (HDV) basketball videos from the 2009-10 season using Premiere. I never made Blu-ray DVDs of them because at the time, none of the players had Blu-ray players.
I still have the original video files on a hard drive and decided to burn them to Blu-Ray DVDs, but when I open the AVI files, all I get is the audio–just black for video. Sometimes I get a message saying that they were encoded with a codec that is no longer available.
Do I have any options to get these videos back?
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Gonna need more info as to what platform and version of Premier your on.
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Not sure what codec may be in your AVI file, but you could always try converting them to h264 with Handbrake.
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Windows 10
I have Premier Pro CS 6 (disc installation) installed as well as current version of CC. I would imagine I made the videos with CS 4 or CS 5 back in 09-10.
Handbrake seems like it might do the trick, but right now the video it’s giving me changes frames only every couple of seconds (I’m not very familiar with Handbrake and all the settings that may be causing this)
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Have you tried AVI ?
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I mean VLC….sorry
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VLC does worse than Handbrake — even after converting there is no video at all. When trying to play the video it says it needs to fix the index, when it gets done it says that it could not decode M703
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some progress — it looks like I made these videos back when I had a Matrox video editing board installed–I owned 3 different ones in the early 2000s, but I had thought I was finished with them by 09-10, but apparently not.
So, I downloaded the VFW Matrox codec, but with that installed, neither version of Premiere will even load up — it gets stuck on ‘Loading Exporter AVI.PRM’, which apparently is a known problem with the Matrox codec pack.
I am getting Handbrake to give me several frames per second, but not even close to 30 FPS. Anyone have any ideas as to what I need to change in Handbrake?
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in VLC under tools, codec information, there’s a fourcc code inside parenthesis. that’s the codec you need to download. if you can get a vfw version of it, use avisynth to repair it in Full processing mode.
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HDV cannot be avi. HDV is mpeg.
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The ORIGINAL video was HDV, after editing I used a Matrox VFW codec (M703) and saved it as an AVI. That is the only format I still have of this basketball season. I downloaded and installed Matrox VFW but it caused Premiere to lock up on loading. I deleted the offending file from the Adobe folder, but I would think the codecs are still there to be used by VLC or Handbrake–yet they still don’t work. (handbrake comes close, nothing else works at all).
I’m in over my head with this stuff — I’ve never heard of a lot of the things I’ve been told to use for this problem!
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