MPEG Imports W/O Audio

I import an MPEG file, but when I drag it onto the Timeline there is no audio. THe MPEG file plays correctly in Quicktime. And I've tried to EXPORT it as .MOV and .DV but they all have the same problem.
Any ideas?

When you say MPEG, did you mean MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4? I'll assume that you mean MPEG-2 (which is what DVDs use).
During the DVD authoring process all the audio tracks are combined with the video track in a process know as multiplexing (muxing). Because of the way MPEG-2 stores frame info these files are non-editable. You must de-mux and convert the MPEG-2 before you can edit it.
That said you do not really want to edit files that have been compressed to MPEG-2. MPEG-2 is a highly compressed format. If you convert that file to a .mov and then edit it, then compress it again to MPEG-2 you will have a noticeable loss in quality. Think of photocopying a photocopy.

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However, instead of seeing a normal 57:32 (or similar stop time), I am seeing 789:57:13.152. When I try to play it through iTunes or IPOD, it skips it as if it wasn't there and plays something else. I checked out importing a music CD, and find the same problem.
let's first see if you can get the CDs to import normally if you switch off "error correction" in the iTunes Advanced-Importing preferences subtab.
but if no joy there, try checking through the other suggestions from the following document:
You can't import or play music from an audio CD in iTunes for Windows
... and these resources might be helpful with that:
Using CD Diagnostics in iTunes for Windows to troubleshoot CD/DVD drive issues
iTunes for Windows: Updating the firmware on your CD or DVD drive
Updating the drivers on your Windows PC
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Hello and welcome to the forum!
Yes, there are a few ways that are faster. Have a look at this thread http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=3465691
You could use software, such as "streamclip", or import by plugging your camera into your capture device and hooking your capture device into your computer and capturing by non-controllable device settings.
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Terry Woolf
Thanks for the reply.
The link to your prior thread is
Audio
I suspect that the issue of no audio for your .mp4 file goes to your conversion method MXF to .mp4.
Please excuse if I am saying what you already know. When you import your video into Premiere Elements (in your case 12 Mac), a project
preset is established, either by you manually or the project automatically. That project preset contains a description of the project settings
for audio as well as video. Unless you select one of the project presets which are described for use with 5.1 channel, your audio in video audio
imports into a stereo project. It is in the export area that you will find your opportunity to customize (if necessary) the settings for audio.
In the project, if applicable to your situation, you can duplicate an audio channel (See Fill Left or Fill Right under fx Effects/Audio Effects).
Please let me ask this to make sure of the details.
If you import your .mp4 with 2 channel audio (derived from your .mxf convert and dragged to Video Track 1/Audio Track 1) and cannot hear the sound....
a. do you see any evidence for an audio file in the Timeline Audio track 1?
b. if you do, how many wave forms do you see, one or two?
c. if you have the audio meters opened while you are playing back the Timeline content in Edit area, do you see 1 or 2 channels and is
there activity in both.
d. when you import the file into Project Assets, do you observe any conforming activity going on in progress bar in the lower right cover of the workspace...if
so, do you wait for it to go to completion before continuing on?
We could also try deleting the conformed audio in the Media Cache Files Folder to force the program to re-conform the audio. See Edit Menu/Preferences/Scratch Disks should show you the location of the Media Cache Files Folder whose contents you will be deleting.
Please review and consider, and then let me know if I targeted your question. If not, please do not hesitate to let me know, and I will rethink my reply based
on your response.
Thank you.
ATR

A low level exception occured in: Importer MPEG (Importer)

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The trouble I'm having is with one .MTS clip. I have a timeline about 20 minutes in length. I edited the whole thing and had no problems the whole time, with any clip. All clips originally imported correctly, played back fine, etc.
I exported a copy for client review (from Media Encoder CS6) the other day. One clip (the .MTS clip in question) showed as "Media Offline". It is not offline, I did not move the clip, etc. I unlinked the clip in the project, relinked it, and it did show up in the project and was able to be played back.
Exported another copy, found the same error occured with just this one clip. Now I'm noticing that when I open the project, I receive the error in the topic title (A low level exception occured in: Importer MPEG (Importer). The clip will not play back and shows up as "Media Pending", as if it's not coming in correctly. Unlinking and relinking doesn't fix the issue.
I have many other .MTS clips in my timeline. All of them work correctly, play back correctly, and export correctly. There doesn't seem to be any inherent problem with the clip itself; it plays back smoothly in VLC, and I've transcoded it to a .mov to try and just bring that in and get around this stupid issue. This didn't work either; I unlink the clip, then relink to the transcoded .mov -- it actually will play back in the preview monitor, but will not display when trying to view it on my timeline. I have also created a copy of the project, tried this inside of the copy, as well as created a new sequence and pasted over the information; none of that worked either. There are also other sequences this clip is on, and it will not play back in any of them either, but as I mentioned, plays back in the preview.
I did find one other topic with a similar issue; they recommend deactivating Premiere, restarting the computer, and activating it again. I did do a restart initially to try and diagnose the problem, but to no avail. I tried deactivating the program, but the Adobe Application Manager doesn't load; it has almost never loaded for me whenever I try to use it, which is frustrating in and of itself.
I tried creating an entirely new project and importing the other project. When I did this Premiere just froze; I'm assuming it can't handle all the pieces (it's a fairly complex project with hundreds of clips) and they are also coming off an external drive through a USB 3.0 cable.
I've temporarily "fixed" this by bringing in the transcoded clip, resyncing it to to the spot I need it in, and cutting it as necessary. I typed this post as I went and tried various things, and while I've found my way around the problem, it doesn't really solve it. I opened another old project that was very similar to this one and also encountered the same error message. I didn't stick around to find out if there was just one clip causing the issue; the fact that it was there was enough for me.
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I'm having the same issue here.
Error: A low level exception occurred in: Importer MPEG (Importer)
Anyone here who can help with this?
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MBP Retina, NVIDIA Gforce GT 750M, 16GB Ram, i7, G-RAID Thunderbolt (external media storage)
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I'm working in a 1080p25 Timeline with Canon C300 footage (.MXF), normally it runs properly.

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Error: A low level exception occurred in: Importer MPEG (Importer)
Anyone here who can help with this?
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Premiere CC 2014
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How to report Quicktime bug? MPEG-2 Export no audio

Subject says it all. I did not find any possibility to log a bug for Quicktime. How to do this?
My problem is:
I have MPEG-2 movies from my Sony digital camera. Quicktime plays them without problem. But when I export them to any format, QT exports them without audio. The audio section in the export dialog is grayed out.
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MPEG-1 is an obsolete low-res, poor quality format. MPEG-2 (DVD) is a delivery and not an editing format. You can send in 1000 sugegstions and you will never see MPEG-1/2 exporting audio in Quicktime.
They do read the forums and there are people who test and submit feature requests for programs like Quicktime. But this one won't fly, and it has been around for ages here.
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Taking for granted that this method works, which I don't know at this time, it has a major drawback: my tool will take around 7 seconds to open the original file, so it will roughly take 8 seconds before the user can start to download the audio file. It can seem reasonably short, but we really don't need that delay, because most of the time we need also to trim the file before this operation, which may take 5 seconds or so, using mpgtx, an open source software.
I wonder if I could use a different method in order to make these file downloadable with QT. Something like what QTFaststart can do with MPEG-4 file (in one second or so, it can modify a MPEG-4 file header in order to make it compatible with QT progressive download). Such a opensource software would be very useful. I could even merge it with mpgtx, so I can cut my excerpt and make it downloadable at the same time.
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If your goal is to simply create a "fast start" file, why not simply put the audio in an MOV file container and unconditionally set the file property to open automatically once it is recognized as valid MPEG-1 data. Try this URL: http://homepage.mac.com/jrwalker4/.Public/KB0531501D.mov

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