Re: Editing H.264 clips from a Canon 5D Mark II in Premiere Pro 1.5.1

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Re: Editing H.264 clips from a Canon 5D Mark II in Premiere Pro 1.5.1

Posted by Bob Dix on October 3, 2011 at 11:22 pm

Any comments on this approach : Correct Answer Re: Can’t get PPro to accept video file.

It doesn’t really matter if you have QT installed for this file; it’s not going to help either way. Premiere Pro does not support H.264 in an AVI container. We can fix this.

Download the latest 32-bit static build of FFmpeg from here: Zeranoe FFmpeg – Builds
Open the archive; you’ll probably need 7-Zip since the archive is a .7z file. Extract the ffmpeg.exe file in the archive (it’s in the “bin” folder) to the folder containing your AVIs.
Create a text document (Notepad is fine) called “avi2mp4.bat” (no quotes) in the same folder as the AVIs, making sure to change the default TXT extension to BAT.
Paste the following into the BAT file:

@ECHO OFF
for %%a in (*.avi) do ffmpeg -i “%%a” -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mp4 -y “%%~na”.mp4

Once you save the BAT file, double-click it; your AVIs will be rewrapped to MP4s without any conversion. The MP4s will correctly import into Premiere Pro.

The above is a quote from an answer given in an Adobe Premiere Pro Forum , re ; H.264 clips/Import into PP.

When I originally Imported H.264 clips into PP the program stopped working.
But, Importing the same clips into PE 4 did work and after rendering as Microsoft avi/Uncompressed at 1440 x 1080 and Imported into PP 1.5.1 it worked.

Is the above “quote” a working solution for direct Import of H.264 clips into the older version of PP.

Thanks

Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA

Bob Dix replied 14 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
4 Replies

Ann Bens
October 4, 2011 at 8:40 am

Short answer no. Premiere 1.5 only understands HDV footage which is mpeg2.

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Brent Dunn
October 4, 2011 at 2:39 pm

Time to upgrade. At least go out and purchase Premier Elements. Cheap alternative that will let you edit without all the headaches. How much is your time worth?

Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.net

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Canon 5D Mark II
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with Final Cut Studio

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Bob Dix
October 4, 2011 at 9:33 pm

Thanks, ANN, I thought as much.

Bob

Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA
Bob Dix
October 4, 2011 at 9:42 pm

Hi Brent,

Luckily time is not a problem now, more or less retired. Yes Premiere Elements 4 will edit the H.264 but, I really like working in PP, that is why I do it in a convoluted way. Mainly go to Blu-ray now which PP 1.5.1 will not do, and a lot of still Photoshop imaging with a bit of High Definition video basic video editing thrown in, I find it fascinating.

Thanks

Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA

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