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Premiere won’t accept new source files in slightly different formats…
I’m using CS3 (and I installed CS4 and got the same problem). I’ve created a video using six different source videos that were originally encoded in XVID. I now know that was a bad idea but at the time I didn’t know how to convert the video so I went ahead and used them. Now my project crashes to the desktop whenever I open it without any sort of error message.
This is a project that I started over a year ago and I set it aside because I didn’t want to deal with the issue, but I really want to finish this project. Now I have a better handle on what sort of codecs work well with premiere and I use Super C to convert the videos to a friendly format and I haven’t had any problems with my projects crashing since then.
So now I’ve revisted the project that is crashing and I have tried converting the original source videos to a more friendly format, but hte problem is, even when I get it to a format that is pretty much exactly the same settings as the original (size, fps, etc) premiere won’t accept it. When I open the project and it asks me “Where is the file…” I’ll point to the new file and premiere tells me “The selected file cannot be linked because its type (video) does not match original file’s type (audio and video)”.. I try this after opening the project by right clicking on the asset and choosing “link media…” but of course I get the same error message.
What i’ve gotten done in the project is like 10 hours worth of work and it would be a shame to lose all of it just because Premiere is too picky about switching from one media type to another .. what are my options in getting this to work?
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You will need to match audio channels. If the files were 5.1, you will need to re-export with 5.1 audio. That’s because when the files are in the timeline, Premiere cannot change audio tracks assignment.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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