Mov files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 - XDCAM (MPEG) resp MPEG 1/2 (xdvc)

Question

Problem description:
I got a bunch of MOV files on a HFS+ formated disk for editing on Premiere Pro CS5 (5.0.3). When I import to Premiere, Premiere says "Codec missing or unavailable". Paragon HFS+ is used to handle the HFS+ formated disk. I copied the data to a NTFS formated disk before using.
The reseach I did give the following indications:
I did try to play in Quicktime and Quicktime told that I would need additional software to play the .mov file. But I could execute show movie inspector and it shows "XDCAM EX 1080i 50 (35Mb/s VBR)".
VLC plays (!) and tells that it is a "Mpeg 1/2 Video (xdvc)"
MediaInfo says "MPEG Video (XDCAM)"
Sound is (L)PCM according to the mov inspector programs.
The MPEG2 format seems to be supported by Premiere (also in HD), forum entries tell me I should be at version 5.0.2 as there Adobe supports the MOV container. So now my question: What am I missing?
I have no idea on the Camera used to film, but it could be a JVC, as it is told that the JVC writes mov files.

Answer 1

Hi Colin,
The explanation is quite simple and it appeared to me sometime during the weekend when executing completly different tasks.
The video source is different! The small clips (and your test clip) are what came from the camera and was transcoded to mov, my test clip was the edit out of FCP! It was by chance the only mov-file left, all others have been deleted after transforming to mp4, not to keep the data in double and fill up the disks with unnessecary data. So I tested this clip, which was the mistake!
Testing one of the original input files confirmed your result!
The difference between the files is having indeed 2 mono audio streams (input mov) vs one stereo stream (edit mov), all 3 obviously PCM.
Input MOV
Audio #1
ID                               : 2
Format                           : PCM
Codec ID                         : lpcm
Duration                         : 2s 760ms
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 1 channel
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits
Delay relative to video          : 4h 14mn
Stream size                      : 259 KiB (2%)
Audio #2
ID                               : 3
Format                           : PCM
Codec ID                         : lpcm
Duration                         : 2s 760ms
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 1 channel
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits
Delay relative to video          : 4h 14mn
Stream size                      : 259 KiB (2%)
Edit MOV:
Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : PCM
Format settings, Endianness      : Little
Format settings, Sign            : Signed
Codec ID                         : sowt
Duration                         : 9mn 26s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits
Stream size                      : 104 MiB (4%)
Thanks,
Lucien.