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Video not playing in Adobe Premiere CS4
When I import an .avi video into Adobe Premiere CS4 it only plays the sound. I can see the first frame of the video, but it does not play the video itself so that I can edit it. My video was an old “home video” that has been converted to DVD and then ripped to my computer into MPEG-4 video format. I read somewhere that it was best to use .avi format, so I downloaded Any Video Converter and converted it to .avi. Also, I have tried using Virtual Dub 1.9.9 to crop the video into a smaller segment, only 15 seconds. This resulted in the same issue, so I don’t think it’s a matter of the size of the file.
I am using an .avi file. When I watch the video in Any Video Converter everything matches up fine and the video plays out without skipping. I can watch it in iTunes and Windows Media Player with no issues as well. I have tried downloading codec packs, with no luck. Also, in Any Video Converter it says the video codec is xvid, so I tried downloading a xvid codec. I am not sure if I have too many codecs so they are not working. I have read that that can be a problem. I am not very familiar with how the codecs work and how to remove them either.
Additional info: I am running Windows 7 with a 2.10 GHz processor. I have 4 GB of RAM and a 64-bit operating system. Any HELP would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
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I had a similar situation and the only way I could get files to work for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro was to edit them down “blind.” By this I mean I opened the file in Premiere, cut it into smaller clips and then exported each clip as a separate MP4. Since the files were encoded in Premiere, then Premiere seemed to like them. Hope this helps. I’m not an expert by any means, but maybe this will hold you over till someone more knowledgeable comes along.
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Thanks for the response! How much time did you cut the clips down to? My original video is like an hour and 45 minutes.
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I cut mine into 10-15 minute segments.
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Ok, thanks for the advice. I’ll try that.
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[Michele Ummel] “My video was an old “home video” that has been converted to DVD and then ripped to my computer into MPEG-4 video format”
Why rip to mpeg4(xvid), you are taking highly compressed and compressing it even higher, just rip to mpeg2 or copy the VOB files to your video harddrive and try as is or rename the files from VOB to mpeg and try.
[Michele Ummel] “read somewhere that it was best to use .avi format,”
AVI is a generic term and can cover a multitude of codecs, usually the SD avi preferred is DV .avi
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