Deej
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Joined: 15 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject: Unsupported Compression? |
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I'm about to rip my hair out and give up vidding if I don't figure this out soon.
I've just started learning how to rip a dvd (dvd shrink and dvd encrypter). So far so good. I get a nice pretty file that will play in everything except the timeline of Adobe Premiere.
The problem has been getting a usable clip into either Premiere 6 or Premiere Pro. I've tried all sorts of software from VirtualDub to AutoGK to winavi to make an avi file from the vob that will work but I continually get a "unsupported compression" error in Premiere. I've even tried renaming the vob to mpg and use that, but it's jerky. Even when I re-encode as a new mpg file using stuff like TMPG or Super... I forget all the stuff I've tried. Premiere hates mpg's. Nothing works so far. Where do I start troubleshooting this? Is it a codec? And if so, how do I find out what I'm missing? Any ideas?
Thanks in advance! |
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Aislynn
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Joined: 03 Feb 2005
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Location: Sawyerville, USA
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Heya Deej!  I've never used Adobe Premiere so unfortunately I've got nothing when it comes to practical experience with it.   I searched for the symptoms you've described and came up with a page of links for "unsupported compression, Adobe Premiere." This was at the top:
| Quote: | Error "...unsupported compression format" or a freeze occurs when you import a file (Adobe Premiere products)
Issue
When you try to import a file that was created using a digital still camera, Adobe Premiere or Adobe Premiere Pro freezes (for JPEG images) or returns the error "Unable to open that file. File uses an unsupported compression format." (for AVI files).
Solutions
Do one of the following solutions:
Solution 1: Rename the file to use the .MPG extension. (AVI files only)
Rename the .AVI file to use the .MPG extension (for example, rename movie.avi to movie.mpg), and then import it into Adobe Premiere or Adobe Premiere Pro.
Solution 2: Transcode the file. (AVI files only)
Use a video processing application (for example, Microsoft Windows Movie Maker, Apple QuickTime Pro, or VirtualDub) to transcode the file to MOV, WMV, or AVI format, and then import the file into Adobe Premiere or Adobe Premiere Pro.
Solution 3: Resave the file using an image editing application. (JPEG images only)
Use an image editing application (for example, Adobe Photoshop) to resave the file in .JPG format, and then import the file into Adobe Premiere or Adobe Premiere Pro.
Background information
Many AVI files generated by digital still cameras don't meet the specifications for the AVI standard. Changing the file extension of these files to .MPG allows Adobe Premiere or Adobe Premiere Pro to use a generic, more-tolerant importer to parse the file.
Transcoding video or resaving images in another application corrects any nonstandard encoding generated by the camera. |
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=325815&sliceId=1
It looks like you've already tried a bunch of the stuff that it said.  I don't know if WMM will open a video .MPG file but I know it will (most of the time  ) open .AVI. I use Sony Vegas Movie Studio and it won't play well with .AVI so I use WMM to convert all of my footage over into .WMV, which Vegas works with. Maybe something like that will help you out, too? *fingers crossed* Best of luck! Hope you're able to get it worked out! |
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Deej
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Joined: 15 Jul 2005
Posts: 11
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the info, Aislynn. That indirectly pointed me in the right direction and I think I've found a path to the answer. For Premiere, the conversion from vob to avi can't be just any old avi file, it has to be a dv avi. Apparently it needs a specific kind of dv codec to compress it so Premiere will be happy. As soon as I find out who, what, when, where, and why I'll post the info for anyone else who needs it. Thanks again! You're a life saver. |
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