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Premiere not importing footage
I had some old mini DV tapes converted to AVI’s that have been sitting on my computer for a while. I am running CS6 and tried importing them into Premiere and only half successfully imported.. the other half came up with an error message saying “Unsupported format or damaged file”
I tried converting to another format in MPEG StreamClip and another error message says “Cant find video or audio tracks” yet the file plays fine in media player.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
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7 Replies
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Odd issue. Is there any way to recapture the footage? That would be your best bet.
When the AVI’s were created, what were they created with? How did you convert them?
The only things I can think of is recapturing the footage, try different codecs when converting, trying a different NLE. I’ve had a couple mishaps where by being able to open the file in a different NLE, even something basic, I could save them as something that would work.
If media player plays them, it could just be a codec/container issue. Have you downloaded a lot of codecs for the media player?
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Not really. I had them sent off to Kodak as some were a good 30 years old and I don’t have any of the equipment to capture.
I just got a new computer so as much as I’m aware, I don’t have any codecs unless they came preinstalled.
Anything else I could try?
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The thing I might try is to use VLC player and then look carefully at the ones that are working and compare the settings/information to the ones that are not. There was two types of DV codecs (type 1 & 2) but in addition, there are some 24p type codecs (panasonic), etc.
Honestly, the other thing might be that some of the files are indeed corrupt.
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They play fine in VLC and have the same codec which is DV Video unless I’m looking in the wrong section.
How would they become corrupt? and if they are would they still work in media players?
Anything else I can try?
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I tried converting using HandBrake to MP4 files and they now import fine but on a lot of them the sound cuts out half way in now yet again they’re fine playing in media or VLC.
Not having the best of luck today! Anyone got any other ideas…
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Some older DV cameras recorded audio at 32k. Something to look at, maybe try a 32k sequence?
Jeff
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Which would be a good preset to use in Premiere CS6?
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