PP 2022. It’s my understanding Adobe Premiere Pro has never supported importing .AVI files. These files are from a Brinno time lapse camera and I believe the AVIs are encoded H.264. This is the error screen I get on multiple different AVIs.

Frankly, Graham, I’m mad at both. It’s 2022 and I’ve been dealing with this crap from Adobe, Microsoft and Apple since the early 90s. Figure it out! Unfortunately, this is the kind of chaos that happens every time I upgrade. Thankfully, my wife’s MAC is still on Mohave, so I was able to finish my edit. But still, it’s maddening.

Trying to import .AVI time lapse files into Premiere Pro. I know PP doesn’t like .AVI files, so I was using Quick Time Player to convert them to .MOV files. That used to work until I upgraded to OS Monterey the other day. Now QT won’t open the files. I tried VLC, but I hate their conversion interface and it was 21 separate .AVI files, so it’s a…

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Recently, I had a problem with some footage shot with my HC X2000. Shot an interview and b-roll using the 4K 60P/HEVC LongGOP 200M codec. Footage was a little laggy while editing in Premiere Pro, but I expected that. I created a lower third for my interviews and that’s where the problem started. While the b-roll exported just fine, both…

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