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Premiere Only Imports Video, Not Audio of .mov file
I am importing archival footage into my Premiere Pro project and with one of my sources Premiere is only importing video. I have watched the pieces in QT so I know there is audio. The files read as: 1B011809_0023_mc-ovzc,wmte.mov I just need to be able to work with the footage, I’ll get the higher quality from the source later.
All thoughts are welcome.
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What is the CODEC of this footage? It might not be supported by Premiere, and might need to be converted first.
Shane
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Shane,
Thanks for the response. The codec is — Video Codec Type: MP4/MOV H.264 4:2:0 -
Hmmm…4:2:0. That sounds like HDV footage. Was this camera master ORIGINAL? Or was this footage that was imported in another app, and then archived? What I mean by that is that Final Cut Pro Legacy (5-7) supported HDV, and would capture it as a QT file. BUT…that QT file was ONLY viewable on computers with FCP installed on it, as the codec it encoded to was FCP ONLY (this was also the case with DVCPRO HD). Found this out when trying to get producers a copy of the footage to preview and give notes. This was also true of HDV and DVCPRO HD codecs that were file based and “logged and transferred.”
So, if this is footage that was captured in FCP 7, for example, you cannot import it into Premiere because the decoder for it only exists with FCP.
That’s just a thought.
Can you open these with VLC player?
Shane
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This seems unlikely–she calls it out as h.264 MOV. That’s different than DV–DV and HDV was its own codec, based on mpeg2, if I remember right. The fact that’s it’s 4:2:0 is pretty much inherent in the h.264 codec.
I’m wondering if this is something that goes back to the Adobe/Dolby falling out over audio codecs. That would explain why Quicktime will play back the audio, and Premiere won’t. I can’t remember, did Adobe figure out a way to use the OS’s Dolby license to play back the codecs?
It might be worth trying to transcode a clip in Media Encoder, or an open-source encoder like Handbrake, to see if this results in a usable file.
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