APP 7.0 importing problems

NicholasGolden · Post by **NicholasGolden** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:17 pm

Hi everyone,

Sorry to bring you yet another APP thread, but I can't figure this one out on my own.

I'm obviously a noob, so I started by reading AbsoluteDestiny & ErMaC's Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video mk2. In there they have a nice AMVapp pack to download, so I did that. I also went and downloaded the newest version of VirtualDubMod since I don't think the pack installed it.

I opened VirtualDubMod, imported an .AVI file and cropped the section of video I wanted. I then selected Huffyuv as my compression and saved the file.

My problem comes when trying to import into Adobe Premiere Pro v. 7.0. I select import and the file I created in VDM. A progress box pops up saying "Importing Files", but nothing happens. I've tried this process with a non .AVI file and it's worked just fine. I tried going back to VDM and compressing with lagarith lossless, but that didn't work either.

I've tried reading posts and guides to solve the problem, but I haven't found anyone getting stuck where I am.

Any thoughts?

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:30 pm

Do you have the plugins in the proper place?

NicholasGolden · Post by **NicholasGolden** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:42 pm

Everything I installed was installed to whatever the default location was...so I would assume the plugins are all in their proper places.

reddragon_syndicate · Post by **reddragon_syndicate** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:33 am

7.0 you say? --- lol well wont drag that subject up.

anyway.. are you cropping the footage through VDM's crop filter or are you doing it through AVI synth?

This may not have anything to do with it.. but just using the filter has given me oddball results.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:16 pm

Have you tried not cropping beforehand?

NicholasGolden · Post by **NicholasGolden** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:57 pm

By "cropping" do you mean resizing the clip? Because all I've done is select which part of the episode I want, so I can keep the clip sizes down, rather than converting the whole episode. I haven't done any subtitle removal or anything yet...I just wanted to get a clip into APP so I could tinker.

And should I be afraid of 7.0?

reddragon_syndicate · Post by **reddragon_syndicate** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:07 pm

Oh ok.. sorry I misunderstood your clip sectioning as cropping the video..
see if the clip you made plays in your media player (Windows, vlc or whatever) Getting the latest version of huffy or lagarith (I prefer Lagarith) may help. This comp has restricted access so I cant venture around a whole lot but I believe you can find those on www.doom9.org

you shouldnt really be afraid of it.. its just the name you used "7.0" It is actually Premiere Pro or Pro 1.0

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:45 pm

NicholasGolden wrote:By "cropping" do you mean resizing the clip?

Yes, the definition of cropping is cutting a set number of pixels off each edge of a video.

NicholasGolden wrote: Because all I've done is select which part of the episode I want, so I can keep the clip sizes down, rather than converting the whole episode. I haven't done any subtitle removal or anything yet...I just wanted to get a clip into APP so I could tinker.

That is called clipping. What format are you saving your clipped segments to? That is, what codec are you compressing with?

NicholasGolden wrote: And should I be afraid of 7.0?

Premiere pro 7.0 is what the people that pirated premiere pro 1.0 called it because they either didn't know or didn't care about the naming change that Adobe implemented. By calling it that instead of what's on the retail box you're basically admitting to using pirated software.

NicholasGolden · Post by **NicholasGolden** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:47 pm

Yes, clipping, thank you. I'm a photo editor firstly, so cropping was the first term I could think of.

Anyway, my understanding is that .AVI is just a container, so the format I'm actually compressing the clips to is huffyuv. I've also tried the lagarith lossless format. Both of those files open and play in my windows media player, but won't import into Pro.

And as for the 7.0, thanks for the heads up.

Kaimi-chan · Post by **Kaimi-chan** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:55 am

NicholasGolden wrote:Yes, clipping, thank you. I'm a photo editor firstly, so cropping was the first term I could think of.

Anyway, my understanding is that .AVI is just a container, so the format I'm actually compressing the clips to is huffyuv. I've also tried the lagarith lossless format. Both of those files open and play in my windows media player, but won't import into Pro.

And as for the 7.0, thanks for the heads up.

I've got the sme problem...
My AP Pro won't import full episodes, for example, but it imports little .avi filles.
I'd like to know how to fix that. I really had to import full episodes for my amv. x_x'