Importing into Premiere Elements

[genesisgurl211.livejournal.com]

I'm having an issue importing files into Premiere Elements and was wondering if anyone else was having this problem. I'm using Elements 1.0 and I'm importing files I have downloaded off of a Torrent site. Now, I can import them into the Bin fine, even view them in the monitor, but I put them in the timeline and all I get is black and no sound when I view the timeline. I've tried re-installing with no luck and all of my codecs are up to date. Any thoughts? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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[bananainpyjamas.livejournal.com]

Are they encoded with DivX or XviD? I'm thinking that's a yes, considering you downloaded them from torrents. You need to convert them to something Premiere can work with, i.e. uncompressed or DV AVIs, or if space is an issue, WMVs.

[genesisgurl211.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Any suggestions of a good converter program? Possibly freeware or shareware?

[bananainpyjamas.livejournal.com]

VirtualDubMod is probably the most versatile for AVI conversion. You can use the Windows Media Encoder for high-quality WMVs.