Import MPEG4-V3 into Premiere

Twabi2 · Post by **Twabi2** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:44 pm

I'm trying to import an MPEG4-V3 encoded movie into premiere Pro, but it just says: unsupported compression in file.
But I can watch it in media player, winamp, submax, ....

mark_essex_87 · Post by **mark_essex_87** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:07 pm

Maybe try installing/re-installing the MPEG V3 codec?

Twabi2 · Post by **Twabi2** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:11 am

It worked! I downloaded the codec from an italian site. It contained a .inf and a .dll Installed using the .inf Windows asked if I wanted to replace the newer version with the old one, I said no, but it works, realy weerd, but anyways, thx!

off-topic:
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edit:
realy strange... I can watch the movie in the project window, but when I try to edit, I can only hear the sound, I don't see the image... when I export, I Just get all weerd colors...

mark_essex_87 · Post by **mark_essex_87** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:08 am

Hmm, maybe you should actually try replacing the file? lol

You can download a MPEG4-V3 Codec from MS -

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... nload.aspx

Twabi2 · Post by **Twabi2** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:52 pm

didn't work either

mark_essex_87 · Post by **mark_essex_87** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:49 am

Maybe you will have to convert using another program to import into Premiere... With some videos I had in MPG before, it couldn't open them so I had to convert to AVI, then from AVI to MPG, then it worked!

Twabi2 · Post by **Twabi2** » Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:04 am

will try

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:07 pm

Premiere doesn't really like MPEGs. I think with the compression MOEGs use, frame by frame and all just doesn't work. Even when you *can* see the video, when you render it with transitions and stuff it will be all jerky and stuff.

Go download the latest MPEG VirtualDub and use that to convert the video into AVI or any file type you need.