Trouble Importing avi file into Adobe Premiere

[Top Gun]

Hi
First time posting and new to this. I am trying to import an avi. file into Adobe Premiere but it continues to say importing but never does anything. I have imported an mpeg with no problem.
Any help would be appreciated

[fitch.j]

A lot more info needed.

Open the file your trying to import in MediaInfo and post the results (from text view) here.
Also what version of premiere?

[Top Gun]

Fitch.j
Thanks for the reply, I am using Adobe Premiere Pro and here is the info you requested from the Medi info download.

General
Complete name : K:\JessicaVideo\FastCrawl.AVI
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 5.01 MiB
Duration : 9s 810ms
Overall bit rate : 4 283 Kbps
Recorded date : 2009-05-10
Writing library : AMBA
ICRT : 17:28:14
Video
ID : 0
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Codec ID : H264
Duration : 9s 810ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 188 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 4 001 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.152
Stream size : 4.90 MiB (98%)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Codec ID : FF
Duration : 4s 847ms
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel positions : Front: C
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 75.7 KiB (1%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 22 ms (0.65 video frame)

[poisondeathray]

He means what version of premiere (e.g. Premiere Pro CS5 , Premiere Pro 2 etc..)

If you install ffdshow and enable h.264/avc in the ffdshow vfw configuration (yellow icon) it should import the video

Another approach you could try is re-wrap the video into another container e.g. yamb to re-wrap into mp4 , or tsmuxer to re-wrap into .m2ts

[Top Gun]

Poisondeathray

Thanks for the advice

This is all greek to me but I will try and download the ffdshow and see how far I can get. Is that a program I run the clip through and it converts it in some way?

[poisondeathray]

no , ffdshow in this context is just a decoder

the other option listed above just "repackages" the contents into another container (think of putting the audio & video into another box , because premiere doesn't "expect" that type of video in an AVI container or "box" , it expects that type of video & audio in another type of container)

If all those fail, then you could convert it to a compatible format, but you still haven't answered the question which version of premiere ?

[Top Gun]

Sorry guys, I'm also having issues with my desktop which I go online with. My version of Adobe Premiere is 7.0. I'm going to try some of the suggestions you have given today and see if I can work some of the magic you guys have shared. NOt sure what I'm doing but will take a stab at it. Thanks!

[Top Gun]

I was able to convert one of my files to an MPEG4 using Yamb but Adobe does not allow me to import it. It will not show the MPEG4 file whit the other files when I try to import. Will keep trying your other suggestions.

[redwudz]

Top Gun , I changed your title to better reflect your question. You generally get more replies that way and it allows others to find it in a search.

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