Editing old PC based Premiere Pro CS4 projects in PP CS5 for Mac

I recently switched to Mac to gain OS stability, while still using Premiere, which I like better than Final Cut Pro.  One big problem, I can't edit old projects that used AVI files in CS5 for the Mac.  Does anyone know how I can do this?

The only times I have seen BSOD's with Win7 was when pushing the limits with overclocking. XP and Vista were not as stable, I admit that.
OTOH, with around 20 times more PC users  than there are MAC users, the number of questions here from MAC users does not inspire confidence. But that is another topic.
In some way you need to get your old projects available for the MAC. You can try exporting to QuiRcktime from the PC, or use a visually lossless or uncompressed format and try to import that into the MAC.

Similar Messages

  • Downgrade Premiere Pro CS4 project to CS3 possible?

    Is it possible to export a CS4 Premiere Pro project in such a way that it will open in CS3? Is there any neutral format such as InDesign's .inx format?

    Tam,
    I rather doubt that you can do a direct transfer of a CS4 Project to CS3. Your only course might be to Export your CS4 to DV-AVI and Import that file. It will have all of edits in place, so you will not have the individual Clips. You can use the Razor, to "create" individual Clips, but you will NOT have Handles on these. You could eliminate all Transitions and then extend each individual Clip to include Handles, but you'll then need to re-set all Ins-n-Outs.
    Now, you might get lucky. Whiled doing some testing for another user, I Opened his CS3 Encore file in Encore2, without even thinking - dang if it didn't work to about 90%. I think it would have worked 100% had I had his Assets and exact folder structure, but that was not what we were testing.
    You might just try Importing the .prproj file into CS3 and X-your fingers. As I started, I would NOT expect this to work, but who knows. If it does, even to a degree, please report back, as this is a common question with each new release.
    Hunt

  • How to combine two premiere pro CS4 projects?

    A friend and I are both editing a video project we shot last week for a college project. We have each been working on seperate parts of the video and now we want to combine the two parts for the finished product. We would like to combine the two projects in Premiere pro so they are still editable.. We dont want to export as individual movie files and combine that way..
    Many thanks

    Thanks for the help guys.. Importing the file works but it only gives me a big long sequence clip of my friends work and it seems to be all over the place.. What I need is the exact layers etc from my friends file.. How can I do that?
    The reason the sequence clip is not adequate is that we are being marked based on an overall premiere pro project file so our teacher can see exactly the edits etc we have made and where we have added sound/fx on the timeline.I know I can chop up the sequence clip into the sections I need but im hoping there is an easier more suitable way for what I need.
    Im not sure if what I am asking is possible but if it is I would greatly appreciate someone breaking it down for me..
    Thanks again for the great help!

  • 'Video Filter Missing' Exporting AE CS4 project into Premiere Pro CS4 project

    Hey guys,
    I am new to Premiere and AE, and I just made a short little intro for my current project in After Effects using a couple different effects and such. When I go to export my AE project and make it into a Premiere Project file it will not let me open the project properly, it says:
    D:\Premiere Projects\AFC Title2.prproj
    Video Filter missing:  AE.ADBE Exposure2
    Video Filter missing:  AE.ADBE Glo2
    Video Filter missing:  AE.CC Particle World
    How do I fix this? Can I get the video filters for Premiere so that it recognizes them?
    Thanks,
    Andrew

    Are you planning on editing the material you're moving from AE to PPro? Not that you can't, but that's sort of a backwards workflow (ie. usually you edit in PPro, and then move the sequence to AE for effects, etc.). Or are you just trying to export from PPro?
    Do you have the Production Premium bundle? If so, you could use Dynamic Link to put your AE comp into a PPro timeline, without having to worry about missing filters. You could also render from AE, and then import the rendered movie into PPro.
    Finally, you can make (most of) the Cycore effects work in Premiere; this includes Particle World. Simply copy the AEX plugins from the After Effects program folder, into the Premiere Pro program folder (you'll have to dig into a couple of subfolders to find the effects). You'll then have access to most of them in Premiere Pro, though they don't all work the same in the PPro interface. The other two are, I believe, AE-only plugins, and are locked to that program--they won't work in PPro, no matter what.

  • Editing a .vob in Premiere Pro CS4 help!

    Okay so I had the files for a dvd on my computer and was editing one of the .vob files in Premiere Pro. After I finished what I was doing I was going to re-save the file and burn it back to dvd, but I couldn't find a way to save/extract it as a .vob!
    Is this possible and I just missed it somewhere?
    If not possible, how could I do that? Encore maybe?
    Thanks a lot!!

    Premiere Elements will do the Import, editing and then Burn to DVD (creating VOB's, plus the other necessary files and structure). It has some of the same editing capabilities as PrPro, plus a very limited authoring function.
    Now for the caveat - you knew that one was coming, right? With a VOB, you have an MPEG-2 AV file, inside the VOB container. It has already been pretty heavily compressed. When you edit that material, and then Transcode it for another DVD-Video, you WILL be re-compressing that footage, and will loose quality. Some NLE programs do offer "smart rendering," but even then, if you do more than just cut the footage, like add Titles, Transitions, color correction, etc., even they will have to Transcode again, at least for the Clips, where you made changes. I think that Vegas Studio Pro offers smart rendering, as might some others. This you will have to research a bit, and read their statements carefully, to make sure what they are capable of and where there are limitations.
    Note: a VOB is a delivery format/container. The MPEG-2 portion is not meant to be edited - just played on a set-top player, or a computer with a DVD software player. Cameras that produce miniDVD's are meant have those played only. They were never intended to be edited.
    Good luck,
    Hunt

  • Png file inside Premiere Pro CS4 project - export video problem

    Hi I've got a strange problem with Premiere CS4. I have a project with two layers. First (bottom) is with video material on it, and on second one (top) has a transparent PNG file. Preview looks great but after exporting it to uncompressed AVI theres a weird "shadow" round area where PNG isn't transparent.
    Preview in Premiere: http://pszajna.ires.pl/preview.jpg
    Export screen: http://pszajna.ires.pl/export.jpg

    I see where Ann is going with this. I recommend you check the alpha channel in the source monitor. You may find unwanted variations in transparency.
    Cheers
    Eddie
    PremiereProPedia   
    RSS feed)
    - Over 350 frequently answered questions
    - Over 300 free tutorials
    - Maintained by editors like
    you
    Forum FAQ

  • Photoshop image size for Premiere Pro CS4 project.

    Bless me folks, for I have sinned, it has been a few years since my last video project and it was done using Premiere 6.  I now have CS4 Production Premium.  In Premiere 6, when I wanted to bring images into the timeline i would create them in photoshop and save them as 720 x 540 bmp files.
    My question is, in Premiere CS4, what size should I make my photoshop files?  I want the final movie to take up most of a wide screen hdtv with a minimal amount of bars at the top and bottom.  I want my images to appear clearly and the text on the images to appear clearly on screen.  I will be creating a dvd and or blu ray, whichever works, and I may eventually want to output the movie for the web as well.
    So ... what new width and height and file type should I use for my photoshop files?  They all need to be the same size because sometimes I use several consecutive photoshop files to show movement on screen because I have not learned how to use after effects yet.
    Any help appreciated.

    Thanks for the info Dennis.  The reason that the size matters to me is that I want a clear quality picture on the hdtv screen.  And with my primitive jibjab-like moving picture technology, I need each image to be the same size so that things move around the screen exactly where I want.  I know that if I start off with a small image size it will look terrible onscreen, so your 1920 x 1080 suggestion is probably what I am looking for.
    I think i used the bmp format in Premiere 6 for performance reasons, but it sounds like maybe performance using psd files has improved with cs4.
    I appreciate the jump-start.
    -Mark

  • Premiere Pro CS4 and JVC HM700e (Mac)

    Hey there,
    first i'd like to excuse my bad (school-)english.
    Hope you'll understand my question anyway.
    We just bought a new JVC-HM 700e Camcorder and we use the CS4 Creative Suite in our company.
    The 700e we can produce MP4 (Win) and MOV (Mac + FinalCut).
    Now we have problems to watch and import the Video to a new Premiere Pro Project.
    You have any idea how to handle those files with Mac and Premiere?
    Thank you!
    Nikolaus K.

    Is there any way that I can get Premiere Pro CS4 to recognise Encore CS5 for Dynamic Linking?
    No. The rest is probably thwartet by licensing restrictions for the MPEG and DVD stuff as it existed back then. Anyway, IMO not worth the trouble to work with DL. Due to the limited memory in 32bit apps it will be severely unenjoyable plus it had tons of bugs back then.
    Mylenium

  • Have an old version of Premiere Pro 1.5 (windows) i bought a new mac.  i'd like to install this old version to my new computer.  can i get a download program for my mac?  how?

    how can i install my old version of premiere pro 1.5 (windows) to my new Mac computer?  is there a download?

    Unfortunately, older versions of Adobe programs are not supported for platform swaps.  You can read about it on the following page:
    Order product | Platform, language swap

  • Premiere Pro CS4 - editing video from GoPro video camera

    I am having a problem trying to edit video from the GoPro camera in Premiere Pro CS4 (PP). Have not been able to get much help from GoPro - they just tell me to speak with Adobe. I think the video codec used by the camera is MJPEG (?). It won't play at all on the timeline. Interestingly it will in After Effects (AE) CS4 and if I export it out of AE as a Microsoft AVI file I can then play it in PP. However if I go straight to Media Encoder and import the clip and then try export the clip via ME as a Microsoft AVI the exported clip from ME won't play in Premiere Pro. I am confused. Does anyone know this camera, it's codec and why it just won't work when directly imported into Premiere Pro but it will when imported directly into After Effects. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

    Please see a post I made this morning under my screen name BruceERoberts .... details below
    I just purchase Adobe Premiere Pro a few days ago - and subsequently updated it to Ver 4.2.1.  A started a new project - I tried to import some video footage I just shot with a GOPro Hemet Cam while skiing at our local mountain.  I can easlily see the clip using Real Media Player - or the Quick Time player.  It is a 10.9 MB ... 7 second MPEG-4 movie clip.  File name is "gopro0030.mp4"
    I created a "bin" called video .... then right clicked to import the file.  You can see the file name in the media browser.  But the file would not import.  I received this error message:  "109C ImporterProcessServer.exe  Application Error.  The instruction at "0x05efcac" referenced memory at "0x00000014".  The memory could not be read. CLick OK to terminate."
    This is very frustrating - I just purchased the software - and it won't import a 7 second video clip!  It did import still fotos with no problem.  What can I do?
    thank you for your attention to this.
    Bruce Roberts, Vernon B.C.
    March 14th 2010
    System Info
    MS Windows XP
    Version 2002 SP3
    Dell Dimension XPS
    Pentium 4 CPU 3.4 Ghs
    3.39 Ghz  3.00 GB of RAM

  • Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 crashes on load with project

    When I try to load my CS4 projects the application crashes with the error:
    "Sorry, a serious error has occurred that requires Adobe Premiere Pro to shut down. We will attempt to save your current project."
    I have my hard drive partitioned: C drive for my OS; D drive for my data; and I also have an external hard drive which is H. I installed Adobe Premiere on my D drive and saved all the my project files and data on my external drive H. A couple weeks ago I got a virus and I wiped out my C drive. So, I reinstalled Windows XP. After reinstalling XP and getting my machine back up and running I removed Premiere Pro CS4 from my D drive and installed it on my C:drive. I connected my external drive to my computer and Windows assigned the drive letter F to my external. I launched my project file and it said it could not find my data and it crashed with the above message. I opened my project file in a text editor and I saw that file path was H:\... for all my data so I reassigned the drive back to H hoping that was the reason for the crash. Much to my chagrin it was not as I try opening the project file now and it finds all the files but it still crashes. I'm all out of ideas at this point. Is there a log file that I can look at to try to troubleshoot this any further? Has anyone seen this happen before? Should I reinstall Adobe Premiere Pro? I am under a time crunch here as I need to open this project and make some edits.
    Any help is greatly appreciated!
    Thanks.
    -Jeff

    Jeff,
    The Page File is MS Windows' "virtual memory." It gets activity, when physical RAM is not available. Especially with video editing, this happens a lot. It can be set via Control>Panel>System. Windows can either dynamically create and size the file, as is necessary, or it can be set to provide the necessary size statically - always the same, and is *usually* set to ~ 2.5x the physical RAM.
    With one physical HDD, that is partitioned, you have about 4-5 operations going on at the same time, and your I/O system is basically telling the heads of your HDD to be in different places/platters at this same time. Unfortunately, this is impossible, and one gets system hangs, sluggish performance, crashes or worse.
    There are several good threads on suggested HDD setups for NLE work on this forum. I'd step back a level, so you get all Premiere forums, and search for some of these articles. There are a lot of worthwhile suggestions for number, type, connection and configuration of HDD's.
    Good luck,
    Hunt

  • Why do I get a Premiere Pro CS4 symbol in the project folder when I save a CC-project?

    When I save a project edited with Premiere Pro CC in the project folder I get a symbol for Premiere Pro CS4  instead ot getting the CC-symbol. I can't open the CC-project by clicking the CS4-symbol. Why?

    I found out myself that you can choose in the project folder if you want to save the project in CS4 or CC. Sorry I took your time with my problem.

  • Canon 7D MOV files = horrible editing in Premiere Pro CS4?

    Hi All,
    I just got Premiere Pro CS4 in the mail today.  I was so excited to start cutting up my Canon 7D MOV files but it seems the MOV files play horribly in Premiere. 
    I looked around a little on the forum and found some others feel the same way (as well as the 5D users). 
    Surely I won't have to use quicktime to preview my videos.  The previewer in Premiere can barely play the files. 
    So, what is everybody doing these days to get a smoother work flow?
    I don't want to have to do a lot of pre-editing (didn't Adobe think of this before claiming it's compatible with Canon 7D/5D files?)
    Also, when starting a NEW SEQUENCE, what PRESETS should I use?  I record in 60fps.  So AVCHD 1080i30 (60i) Anamorphic?? (what a long name!)
    HELP ME!! 

    Hey Jeff,
    Here is that link I read it from...
    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/500152
    Yeah, "technically supports" is giving me a headache.  I've spent my night and morning trying to find the best solution and it seems very scattered on the web. 
    So far the best is this blog about the "complete idiots guide to Canon 5D and PrPRO CS4..."  (note the link doesn't go straight to blog... look on the right side and click the link)
    http://www.crookedpathfilms.com/blogframe.html
    I didn't want to go the FCP route but I think I made a mistake buying CS4 last minute.  You know what sucks?  Yesterday as I'm installing Premiere Pro CS4 I'm checking my email and I see the news about the April launch of CS5 and how greatly improved PrPro CS5 is.   Oops. 

  • Editing H.264 .mp4 files in premiere pro cs4?

    I recently got a GoPro HD Hero camera, and i've been shooting in 720 and 60i, the files that come off of the camera are in .mp4 format, and when i import them into premiere pro cs4 i can hear the sound but all i see is a solid green screen, can anyone shed some light on this problem?

    I cant even get it to import to CS4
    On both my desktop and laptop.
    It crashes and just hangs.
    I tried CS3 but it would not even try to import saying not a suported format.
    im updating to the new 4.2.1 to see if that works.
    my compter is a few years old and it doesnt like HD.
    I can play HDV.
    Even just playing yours in my media player it is having a hard time keeping up.
    It plays fine on the laptop in the player so that is the one updating now.
    Even G-Spot says that the codec is undetermened.
    Glenn

  • Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.0.1

    An update to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 will be available via Adobe Update Manager shortly. The file will also be available for download tomorrow (November 20) on Adobe.com, as will the readme (at http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/premierepro/releasenotes.html). In the meantime, here is the text of the readme.
    We're really excited about this update, especially considering we released CS4 just one month ago. To force an update, choose help --> find updates from any Adobe application. The AME update that releases with this update is required as well.
    Important note: if you are using the Elemental Technologies RapiHD plug-in, you must update to the latest version in order to use Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.0.1. You can update the plug-in by visiting the Elemental Technologies web page: http://www.rapihd.com/?q=node/129
    New in this release
    - OMF export
    - Final Cut Pro import
    - Edit in Audition (Windows only)
    - Surcode support
    - AAF import and export
    - High quality motion
    - Third-party support
    Notable fixes
    - Attempting to trim locked tracks results in a crash (#1888355)
    - Crash on Win and error on Mac when using Numpad-Asterisk keys to generate marker when
    playing in Program Pane when Effect Controls pane is closed (#1890626)
    - Crash when the Metadata panel is brought into focus when a DVCPro HD clip is selected
    (#1884633)
    - When a filter/search is applied in the Metadata Panel and then a different asset is selected, the
    filter does not update (#1876954)
    - Custom schema causes Adobe Premiere Pro to crash performing many basic operations,
    starting with New Project (#1888938)
    - Render of transition in imported EDL-based sequence fails; on Mac, causes application to hang
    indefinitely, user must be force-quit application (#1873434)
    - After ASND is saved, an effect is always ON if it turns OFF while playing (#1864978)
    - Crash when attempting to load a project that contains a composition if headless Adobe
    Premiere Pro is serving Adobe After Effects (#1871578)
    - Exporting video as MPEG 4 will create a video file that imports at the incorrect length
    (#1851063)
    - Trimming both ends of a clip, then moving the clip will cause looped playback to be silent, or
    only playback portions of the clip (#1868409)
    - When exporting a timeline containing cuepoints, deleting a cue point via AME Batch-> Export
    Settings, the cue point is still present in the output file (#1866690)
    - Playing an audio-only file in the source monitor will cause the application to lock up (#1887330)
    - Exporting any MT session as 24bit WAV leads to garbled audio Mac only (#1881684)
    - Adobe Premiere Pro allocates too much memory and reads too much data from disk when
    loading project files on the Mac (#1890579)
    - With camera connected, opening clip from Timeline into Source and selecting File  Debug
    results in a serious error (#1889197)
    - Export to tape is active from DVCPRO HD sequences (#1863718)
    - Application intermittently crashes when exporting a movie (#1868405)
    - Render and Replace of offline clips takes over 20 minutes (#1885273)
    - Application crashes when cancelling Normalize Audio Track dialog (#1887615)
    - When an AVCHD clip is inserted into a DV timeline with Scale to Frame Size applied, rendered
    previews of the clip show artifacts during Timeline playback (#1863988)
    - Using scale to frame size in a timeline lowers output quality and softens detail and sharpness;
    typing in scale attributes manually or using Adobe After Effects produces much better results
    (#1527669)
    - Multiplexed MPEG files exported to HD size and then imported back in to Adobe Premiere Pro
    show up as 601 color space instead of 709 color space and hence the colors of the imported
    files are off (#1852977)

    Other users have reported having trouble with VOB files from DVD recorders.  Properly authored DVDs work.
    Where did you get the VOB files that won't work for you?
    -Jeff

Maybe you are looking for