Convert .vc1 from a Blu Ray to a workable file in Adobe

[fearmyrage]

I am using Adobe Premiere CC and am trying to edit a .vc1 video I demuxed out of a .m2ts on a blu ray. VLC plays the file fine and Xvid4PSP can load it and work with it as well but premiere wont do it. So i found a program called "VC12AVI" which does exactly what I need by rewriting the headers of the vc1 into an avi without converting the video. The problem with that solution though is that it takes my 7 GB VC1 and breaks it into multiple 2 GB AVIs and that introduces errors at the beginning and ending of the breaks in the video making it useless.

So my question is this, is there a way for my to load that VC-1 into Premiere without converting, or is there a way I can use the "VC12AVI" or similar application that will not break the video apart?

Edit: Actually I just tried that VC12AVI on a different shorter video and it still introduced errors even without having to break the video. So i don't know if the program just doesn't work or there is something else happening.

Edit 2: Upon further exploring the video seems to fine when played back in regular software its only in premiere when things start looking really bad. I also noticed that when I play the .avi file back in Media Player Classic or in Windows Media player it looks far worse than when the same file is played back in VLC. Its much more smeary with considerably less fine detail. I know VLC uses its own decoders but the difference between the 2 is significant and seems like a problem.

[aedipuss]

just changing the headers of a video hardly ever does any good.

maybe you need to convert it to a lossless type codec. ut, huffyuv, etc. large file sizes, but will most editors accept them.

[fearmyrage]

I tried converting to lossless but is just too big for the amount of footage I will be working with.

[El Heggunte]

vc12avi is buggy and outdated.

This is what I would do:

1) mux the VC1 file to MKV with MKVtoolnix

2) open the MKV in VirtualDub, select "Direct stream copy", and save to an AVI file

3) load this AVI file into Adobe Premiere.

[fearmyrage]

I didn't think Virtual Dub would load mkvs.

[El Heggunte]

I didn't think Virtual Dub would load mkvs.

You have thought wrong

http://gral.y0.pl/~fcchandler/Plugins/Matroska/index.html

[fearmyrage]

Just tried your method and the resulting avi only plays in VLC and will not load into Premiere.

[El Heggunte]

Should also play fine in MPC-HC, PotPlayer and WMP.

If Premiere refuses it, the problem is in Premiere, not in the remuxed AVI.

So you'd better find and use a different editor, IMHO.

[rnb5500]

Maybe try muxing the VC1 into WMV. If Premiere still doesn't like it and lossless files are too big then maybe near lossless would be exceptable like AVC Intra or Mpeg2 IFrame.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, there is an AviSynth plugin for Premiere. Have you tried muxing your vc1 into mkv and loading with AVS script using ffmpegsource2?

[smrpix]

Premiere likes vc1 in a wmv container. It also likes wma audio along with it, I wonder if that could be your issue.

[El Heggunte]

Does Premiere support VC1 in a transport stream If the answer is "yes", then TSmuxer is the way to go.

Premiere likes vc1 in a wmv container. It also likes wma audio along with it, I wonder if that could be your issue.

And that's the problem --- put VC-1 into the ASF container.

The ones who invented the "poor man's AVI" offer no tools for the task

And depending on the stream you have, and on the phase of the moon, and on the birth date of your dog, you must use different applications for achieving the goal: besides MKVmerge and VirtualDub, ffmpeg and/or vidtoasf and/or AsfBin and/or SolveigMM ASF Multiplexer may be required, in order to obtain a correctly-indexed and playable "WMV" -.-

[fearmyrage]

Premiere does not like it as a wmv either