please help: unsupported mHz in Adobe 6.0

[chicagomama]

I am such a novice I shouldn't even be posting here because I probably won't understand the answers. sigh. But I'm going to try:

I am trying to edit some videos. I just bought a Sony DCR-SX63. I used to use Adobe Premiere 6.0 or Windows Movie Maker to edit home movies (but I would capture them from the real tape through a firewire the old fashioned way and never had any problems). Now apparently the videocam clips are mpegs and WMM doesn't support them. I tried Adobe and it gives me some message about not supporting the rate:

"Unable to open that file. File was recorded at an unsupported rate. Supported rates are 11kHz, 22 kHz, 32kHz, 44kHz, and 48kHz."

All I want to do is have an easy way to edit the videos. These are vacation videos and kid videos for my use only. From what I tried to understand from these forums, I have to run some software to change the format of the individual videos clips? This would take forever I think- I have hours from a trip to Ethiopia and I'm not about to go file by file converting them.

What can I do? Is there ANY video editing software that supports these files? Is there anyway to convert a whole folder to the right format?

Please answer in very easy terms.

[poisondeathray]

what format are they?

use mediainfo (view=>text) , and copy & paste the info back here

[redwudz]

Those rates appear to be audio rates. DVDs and most MPEG-2 files use 48Khz. VCDs use 44.1Khz. But I don't know why that camcorder would output anything but 48Khz if you used MPEG-2 format. A MediaInfo screenshot would be helpful.

And welcome to our forums.

[chicagomama]

ok, I have no idea what you're talking about.

I looked at the properties and it says "movie clip mpg"

on the bottom of the camera it says NTSC 7.2V (I'm not sure what is important or what anything means so I'm just giving you whatever I got.

i don't see "kHz" anywhere.. I'm sorry I'm such an idiot. I have no idea even where to look....

[chicagomama]

So if I need to convert the mpg to avi, what is the best way to do so?

[davexnet]

As mentioned twice before, download MediaInfo. Open your troublesome media file with it,
and put it into view/text mode.

All the gory details will be revealed. Copy and paste the info into the forum here, so the experts can review it.

https://www.videohelp.com/tools/MediaInfo