RE: Draging video into Timeline

Hello Every-one.
This is my first post, I am very new to Premiere pro.
I shoot with canon 5d 1920 x 1080 and canon XHA1s 1440 x 1080.
I used the program called studio ultimate collection, to create my movies.
And now I am learning The Premiere Pro. I saved my files from the studio 14 as MPEG-2 HDV 1080i and HD 1080 i
and now when i Drag the files into the premiere pre Timeline, it dose not allow me.
But if i drag AVI files it dose read
Would you please help me
Thank you very much

If you are using the trial version, it will not work with or output to MPG files
A link with many ideas about computer setup http://forums.adobe.com/thread/436215?tstart=0
Work through all of the steps (ideas) listed at http://ppro.wikia.com/wiki/Troubleshooting
If your problem isn't fixed after you follow all of the steps, report back with ALL OF THE DETAILS asked for in the FINALLY section,
the questions at the end of the troubleshooting link... most especially the codec used... see Question 1

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If you are using a windows 64 bit computer download avconv here: http://win32.libav.org/win64/
go to the bottom of the page and click on the newest date version. DISCLAIMER: This is open source software. It's free. I didn't make it so I'm not trying to sell you anything.
It's a zip file so you will need to use winzip or 7zip to uncompress it. You can't just click on the installer. You can uncompress and save the program wherever you want on your computer. Say you didn't pay attention and you automatically saved it in the default spot in your downloads folder. The place you'd find the program might look like this if you're on a 64 bit computer:
C:\Users\youruseraccountname\Downloads\libav-9.7-win64 If you're on a 32 bit computer it will probably look like this C:\Users\youruseraccountname\Downloads\libav-9.7-win32
Just make sure you know where it is located and copy it down in notepad. If you can't find it, do a search on your C: drive for avconv .For this forum thread we will assume you have saved avconv in the downloads folder and you're on a 64 bit computer.
Click on the Windows key on your keyboard. Type in Run and then press enter. Type in CMD and press enter. This will open up windows command line. Don't worry, it's not as scary as you think.
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Now switch back to the windows command line window. Now I'm going to have you type a command into the windows command line but before you do I want you to understand how to type it in.
#1. Do you know the exact path (location on your computer) where you installed avconv?
#2. Did you copy the exact path (location on your computer) where you have your video file?
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C:\Users\youruseraccountname\Downloads\libav-9.7-win64\usr\bin\avconv.exe -i "c:\Users\youruseraccount\videos\yourvideo.mp4" -vn -qscale 1 "c:\Users\youruseraccount\videos\yourvideo.wav"
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C:\Users\youruseraccountname\Downloads\libav-9.7-win64 this is the example location we said we installed avconv. The actual avconv.exe program is located inside that folder so the full path would be this: C:\Users\youruseraccountname\Downloads\libav-9.7-win64\usr\bin\avconv.exe
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-vn just tells avconv you only want to extract audio from the video
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Here are the details of the problematic video file that I had this issue with. This is from avconv:
Metadata:
    major_brand     : mp42
    minor_version   : 1
    compatible_brands: mp42mp41
    creation_time   : 2013-05-12 11:45:32
Duration: 01:58:28.24, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3256 kb/s
    Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline), yuv420p, 1280x720, 2997 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2013-05-12 11:45:32
    Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 256 kb/s
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2013-05-12 11:45:32
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