Adobe Premiere Elements 12 Video Errors

[jcool26]

Hello to all! I have Adobe Premiere Elements 12 and when I add an mp4 video to timeline it works fine. The problem is when I add an avi file I get this message :This type of file is not supported, or the required codec is not installed. Can anyone help me or is there a codec that I need? I would greatly appreciate your help.

[poisondeathray]

Use mediainfo or gspot to identify the codec used in the AVI. You may need to install it

[jcool26]

I just used gspot and opened the file and it tells me codecs are installed. It still won't import in adobe premiere elements

[poisondeathray]

what does it say specifically ?

You need 64bit codecs for 64bit programs , 32bit codecs for 32bit programs (e.g. if Elements was 64bit you would need a 64bit version of that codec)

[jcool26]

This is the message that i get in adobe premiere elements This type of file is not supported, or the required codec is not installed

[poisondeathray]

I meant gspot . What kind of AVI is it ? What is the video compression ?

Use mediainfo (view=>text) on the AVI, copy & paste the text back here

[jcool26]

General
Complete name : C:\Users\WJL\Documents\BitLord\Homefront.2013.HDRi p.XviD.MP3-RARBG\Homefront.2013.HDRip.XviD.MP3-RARBG.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 1.05 GiB
Duration : 1h 35mn
Overall bit rate : 1 573 Kbps
Movie name : Downloaded from RARBG.COM
Writing application : Lavf55.22.103
Comment : Downloaded from RARBG.COM

Video
ID : 0
Format : xvid
Codec ID : xvid
Duration : 1h 35mn
Bit rate : 1 300 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 400 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.181
Stream size : 891 MiB (83%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 35mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 176 MiB (16%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Writing library : LAME3.99.5UUUU

[poisondeathray]

If your elements is the 64bit version , you need to install the 64bit version of xvid

[jcool26]

Where can I find the 64 bit version?

[poisondeathray]

There is one here
http://members.optusnet.com.au/squid_80/xvid64.zip

[jcool26]

How would I install it or do I just extract it?

[poisondeathray]

Extract, right click xvid.inf , select install

[jcool26]

I did and still the same problem with importing the file

[poisondeathray]

Did you close & restart elements before trying to reimport the AVI ?

You can try re-wrapping it in vdub or avidemux (direct stream copy) . Sometimes some programs don't like certain versions of AVI wrappers

Otherwise you probably have to re-encode it to something Elements understands

[jcool26]

yes i did and still same problem

[poisondeathray]

I would try re-wrapping it in vdub

open the avi, video=>direct stream copy , audio=>direct stream copy , file=>save as avi . It will save a copy of the file, try opening that new version in elements

Otherwise you can try re-encoding it to something else

[jcool26]

Tried vdub same thing same error

[poisondeathray]

You can try uncompressed video & audio , but the filesizes will be large (in vdub instead of video=>direct stream copy, set it to "fast recompress", then video=> compression and select one, adjust the settings) . Same with audio , audio=> full processing mode. I would leave it uncompressed

For video compression something like cineform (go pro cineform studio is the free version), is high quality and should be compatible with most windows programs . It will be accessible in vdub once you install it. It will still be several times larger than your original

[jcool26]

Ok I will try that and how about avidemux will that help?