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RB_Nielsen
11th February 2005, 04:51
Hi,

Nuebie here.

I own a DVD that I want to edit in Adobe Premiere Pro. There are a ton of threads in the various forums about going from Premiere to DVD, but none that I can find describing how to go the opposite direction - DVD to Premiere.

I successfully used DVD Decrytper to rip, and then ran that output through AutoGK to produce an AVI. Though the AVI plays very well in Windows Media Player, and imports into Windows Movie Maker, it hangs when I try to import it into Premiere Pro.

Any suggestions leading to a successful DVD-to-Premiere process will be greatly appreciated.

Bruce
MaxT
11th February 2005, 05:13
Any AVI produced by AutoGK (and played fine in WMP) can be easily imported into Adobe Premier. In your case it seems that you have problems with RAM (probably), as you're importing quite a big file (+700mb probably).
RB_Nielsen
11th February 2005, 05:30
Thanks for the reply. The file size is 1300, and the computer memory is 1gig (Dell). I have larger avi files (some almost 5x larger) that have worked well in my version of Premiere pro - ver 1.5. The IMPORT function in Premiere opens the window, but hangs at that point, meaning I have left the Premiere IMPORT window open for over an hour thinking that maybe the file was quite large. The MS MovieMaker software took several minutes to import this file, and it did not hang.
MaxT
11th February 2005, 05:33
Ah, v.1.5. :rolleyes: That one crashed on me every time I tried to work with it (just personal expirience) so I've changed back to 7.5. Could be that...
RB_Nielsen
11th February 2005, 19:14
A couple of thoughts in response:

1. I'm confused about the reference to Adobe Premiere versions in particular ver 7.5 vs Premiere Pro 1.5 - according to Adobe these are the same. So changeing to ver 7.5 where the import supposedly works doesn't makes sense.

2. I did try using Adobe's ver 6.5, and it refused to IMPORT the AVI file because of a "compression" incompatibility. I'm not certain whether that provides any useful information.

3. I'll try to investigate what codec Premiere Pro uses, and see if that provides some helpful insights.

Thanks to all for the suggestions.