can't import .AVI files into adobe premiere 6.5...

majinvegeta27 · Post by **majinvegeta27** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:23 pm

i just got premiere today and i have lots of clips and 95% of them are .AVI files. i tried importing them into premiere but it says unsupport files type .avi or something like that and it says i can't import them. anyway to get past this problem? thanks in advanced

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:08 pm

do you have the right codec ? install divx

majinvegeta27 · Post by **majinvegeta27** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:53 pm

uhh, i have the DivX codecs already, but what does that have to do with importing .AVI files into premiere?

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:53 pm

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/

Did you read this?

majinvegeta27 · Post by **majinvegeta27** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:04 pm

yea, there's nothing there about my problem

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:15 pm

majinvegeta27 wrote:yea, there's nothing there about my problem

Well, if you did read it, you would get a pretty good understanding of how to handle with the source footage...

Nontheless:
What video codec are the video files encoded in?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:26 pm

majinvegeta27 wrote:uhh, i have the DivX codecs already, but what does that have to do with importing .AVI files into premiere?

Premiere, like anything else on your computer, won't be able to open a video file unless you've got the codec it uses.

majinvegeta27 · Post by **majinvegeta27** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:56 pm

uhh well from the site that i got them from, it said they are all in DivX format, and you need the DivX codecs to play them. they do play and everything, but when i try ti import them, i get this exact message: "Unable to open that file. File uses an unsupported compression format"

Alex_Dragon · Post by **Alex_Dragon** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:01 am

Forum Rules wrote:2. Thou shalt not use downloaded video footage to make AMVs.

Go figure.There was a reason they came up with those things called Rules.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:10 am

Then use <a href="http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net">VirtualDubMod</a> to convert the clips you need to HuffYUV. Premiere has no problems working with that.