Importing into Abobe premier pro

dave777 · Post by **dave777** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:57 am

Hey,
Well finally got round to start using Adoble Premiere Pro 7.0 and hit a problem already, When importing things wmv,mpeg import fine, but if i try importing a .avi file it doesnt work and i get a message saying "Unsupported Compression in File"

Can anyone help me with importing my .avi into premiere, Thanks

7sigma · Post by **7sigma** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:08 am

That's because your .avi was compressed by a codec that Premiere doesn't like, such as Xvid or DivX. If you can get the original source, you should convert it to uncompressed RGB for editing, or use an .avs file.

If you can't find the original source, then you should use .avs editing. Read the lovely guide <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... l">here</a> on how to do it.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:54 pm

7sigma wrote:That's because your .avi was compressed by a codec that Premiere doesn't like, such as Xvid or DivX. If you can get the original source, you should convert it to <b>uncompressed RGB</b> for editing, or use an .avs file.

Or HuffYUV. Saves you space, but retains full quality (okay, a tiny loss if you convert from RGB to YUY2, but DVDs are in YV12 anyway, so you wouldn't be).

For to save even more space, I've heard good things about Lagarith...

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:21 pm

Scintilla wrote:Saves you space, but retains full quality (okay, a tiny loss if you convert from RGB to YUY2, but DVDs are in YV12 anyway, so you wouldn't be)

I can't say I fully grasp the guides and colour theory, but isn't there a loss in YV12 -> YUY2 too?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:36 pm

Janzki wrote:
Scintilla wrote:Saves you space, but retains full quality (okay, a tiny loss if you convert from RGB to YUY2, but DVDs are in YV12 anyway, so you wouldn't be)
I can't say I fully grasp the guides and colour theory, but isn't there a loss in YV12 -> YUY2 too?

If I read that part right, there shouldn't be -- YV12 has half as many chroma samples as YUY2, so you'd just need to take each 2x2 chroma sample, split it into two 2x1 samples, and there you go.