Adobe Premiere & Premiere Pro discussions from 2004

[Johnny Chiang]

Any easy way to do this?

[Rich Lee]

I have herd there is some sort of plugin for 24p advanced footage for premiere. is this true? whats it called?what version of premiere does this work in?

[Peter Richardson]

Hi guys--I am trying to import an mpeg2 file that I have on CD into Premiere Pro, but I keep getting this error message: "No Importer Found that Supports this File Type." What gives? Obviously Premiere supports mpeg2,right? thanks for the help,

Peter

[Ed Smith]

Does it play alright through windows media player? What sort of MPEG 2 file is it? What is its file extension name (*.mp2, *.mpeg, *.mpg....)?

Cheers,

[Alexey Ravichev]

This is probably a dumb question but I am absolutely new to Premiere. Here's what I have: I shot my friends birthday and now I am trying to edit it. Since I don't have a list of all scenes with timecode I guess my best option is to capture it all together, right? Then I am trying to break this huge file into smaller ones that contain only one scene, so i put a big file in the timeline and cut it, then select small piece and go to "export movie" trying to save as a separate file. But it looks like premiere starts recompressing it again. I am afraid to lose quality doing this, so I'd appreciate your help. Is my procedure optimal for what I am trying to do? How to make premiere export without recompressing?

[Michael Richard]

It's called Premiere Pro version 1.5. Should be out soon.

[Keith Loh]

Run the movie through this program and it will tell you if you have any codecs missing:

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[Rob Lohman]

With the latest version of Premiere you can also automatically
break up the clips while capturing (where you stopped and
started the camera) like Vegas and Scenalyzer do. That can be
handy depending on how you want to work.

Premiere should not recompress, but that totally depends on the
following:

1) your version of Premiere

2) your capture settings

3) your project settings

4) your export settings

So tell us what you are doing at those 4 steps and we'll see if
we can figure it out.

[Rob Lohman]

I doubt it will also run with Media Player. The first question we
need answering is which version of premiere you are running...

[Peter Richardson]

Hey guys--The file will play in Windows Media Player. I'm running Premiere Pro, I think version 7 (this is just a guess). I believe the file extension was .mp2, and I think we tried changing this to .mpeg hoping it would help, but it didn't. Perhaps we should try different file extensions? Thanks!

Peter

[Rob Lohman]

You can try .mpg but I doubt it will work. The question is what
kind of MPEG2 file it is. It can be an elementery stream, program
stream or transport stream and I doubt it will read all three forms.

Any chance this came from a digital sattelite / cable source and
is an mpeg2 transport stream? Almost no programs can handle
that format.

[Peter Richardson]

Thanks for the reply Rob. I'm not sure specifically what kind of .mpeg file it is. It was output from Premiere 6.5 as an mpeg, so whatever Premiere outputs it as would be the format. I'm thinking I will just try to import it into Avid Xpress Pro and transcode it into something else, assuming Xpress Pro can understand it. I will report back with findings.

Peter

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[Rob Lohman]

It should be an elementery stream (only video) or a program
stream (video & audio normally) in that case. Strange Premiere
does not want to read it back. I'm basically out of suggestions
except for a re-install of Premiere (and perhaps Windows).

Good luck!

[Peter Richardson]

Thanks Rob. I think it is an elementary stream as it only contains video. I tried importing into Avid and it didn't recognize it either. We are going to try importing and transcoding in Cleaner, hopefully that does the trick.

Peter