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Hey guys!

I'm trying to make the switch from WMM to Premiere, because Premiere is kind of orders of magnitude better, but when I upload .avi files into Premiere, I only get the audio tracks, not the video tracks. I've tried this with files from all different sources, and had the same problem every time. (All these files play fine in WMM and WMP, so there's nothing wrong with them.)

Has anyone else had this problem with Premiere? Any suggestions for dealing with it?

Thanks a ton!

[identity profile] chinawolf.livejournal.com 2007-03-15 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I have the same problem when I work with longish vids: at some point, Premiere just doesn't let me import any compressed avi snippets any more (they show up as audio files even though they don't even have an audio track); the only files it lets import correctly are huge uncompressed RGB/YCbCr files. This has happened to me with two vids I am working on, both were close to finished with around three and a half minutes of timeline filled when that particular problem occurred. Restarting Premiere or the computer didn't help, only resporting to the above mentioned uncompressed avis.

So, yes, I have the same problem, unfortunately I don't know how to solve it, only how to work around it, which of course requires a lot more space.

(My specs: P4 3 GHz with 2.5G RAM, WinXP SP2 and Premiere Pro 2.0)