One deviant "Quicktime file". Is there a solution?

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

I don't get it!

I have a stubborn media file that:

1) Premiere Pro CS 3.2 won't play and displays nothing.
2) Premiere Pro CS 5.5 will display the video but there is no audio.
3) Quicktime player 7.7.x Plays both the audio and video just fine.
4) I have Apple's MPEG-2 playback component installed.
5) The file is SD compressed at 12 mbps. Very high quality.
6) Both G-Spot and Media Info gives the following few details:
Codec = qt
"MPEG-4"/Quicktime
.mov
Says nothing about the audio whatsoever.
7) Aspect ratio is SD 16:9.

Why Premiere Pro and most of the media players out there can't handle it is a complete mystery.

Apparently I may need to convert it into something I can work with.

It may be already compressed. Unknown at this point. One of the file analyzers gave it an MPEG-4 tag.

Want to retain playback quality if at all possible.

So it's some kind of convoluted "Quicktime" file with a .mov extension.

Ideally I'd like to convert it to an MPEG-2 SD 16:9 file and maintain the aspect ratio.

I tried a MPEG Streamship conversion to .avi and ended up with no audio.

What needs to be done to get this into a format that can be worked with?

What tools or workflows?

Thanks in advance

[aedipuss]

sounds like one of the oddball apple codecs was used. quicktime pro may be able to save it as something else. but, there are some mov's pc's just aren't allowed to handle. what is it and where did it come from?

[poisondeathray]

Yes, since quicktime can play it, it quicktime pro should be able to convert it. It should be able to identify the audio format as well

If it plays in VLC, you can convert with VLC, or you might be able use ffmpeg based software e.g. ffcoder, avanti

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

Gents.

Thanks for be willing to pitch in your thoughts.

The good news is that I got lucky and quickly discovered that MPEG Streamclip easily and speedily converts certain file types directly to MPEG-2 with mp2 audio which is exactly what I was looking for.

I suspect that .mov file was compressed.

Voila!

Problem solved.