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  • Video Imports as an Audio File Only! Please Advise.

    Posted by Lisa Hurley on July 30, 2012 at 4:48 am

    Hello 🙂
    I’ve worked with Premiere for years, and never once has this happened. I’m hoping someone will have an answer or suggestion for me in this dilema.

    I was given a few video files which were filmed with a Vivitar HD 1080.
    One of the files was a .mov, and the others were .avi

    So, the mov imported just fine. However, the .avi files are importing as audio files ONLY. I have spent hours trying to figure this out, even trying to convert the .avi’s to .mov’s. That doesn’t work either. They are still importing as audio files. I know the video exists, because I can open it in various media players, so the question is, Why oh WHY is Premiere importing it as audio only?

    Please help ….

    Thanks in advance!

    Lisa

    Ann Bens replied 13 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Ann Bens

    July 30, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    Avi is but a wrapper. If the avi is H.264 then you have to convert it into something Premiere understands.
    Run your file through Mediainfo and see what codec is inside.
    https://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

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