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February 23, 2024
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Import AV QuickTime movie, clip is audio-only

  • February 23, 2024
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I rendered two AV clips, both with alpha channels, from FCP. One clip imports successfully into Premiere Pro but the other imports as audio-only.

Screen recording demonstrating... https://vimeo.com/916069379/f728063d61?share=copy 

What to do? Thank you

 

Premiere Pro 24.1.0 (Build 85).

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Correct answer wesplate

If you get the red warning triangle momentarily in Premiere, you can bring up the warning panel ... don't recall what it's actually called. And that will show recent warnings, so you can actually READ them. Not that "error 58943" is all that informative, but at least, if a dev sees the numbers, they can tell what they are.


 

A friend pointed me to https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/quot-we-were-unable-to-open-file-on-disk-quot/m-p/10328848

I re-exported from FCP, this time making sure the range I was exported included a small gap at the front, and now this exported movie comes into Premiere Pro quite happily!

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Averdahl
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 23, 2024
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I rendered two AV clips, both with alpha channels, from FCP. One clip imports successfully into Premiere Pro but the other imports as audio-only.


By @wesplate

 

Usually this means that the video codec you rendered from FCP does not exist in Premiere Pro. Use ProRes from FCP.

wesplateAuthor
Inspiring
February 23, 2024

Both movies, the one that works and the one that doesn't, are both ProRes 4444.

Averdahl
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 23, 2024
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Both movies, the one that works and the one that doesn't, are both ProRes 4444.


By @wesplate

 

Very odd... A dumb question, but are you sure that the file is ProRes 4444? Over the years i have missed things in the export setting thinking i have done it right but in the end it turned out that i missed one little detail. Worth checking.

 

Can you export with the QT Animation codec from FCP? If the project is time critical it is worth testing. 🙂

(I don´t know if the Animation codec is still alive on Mac these days...)

R Neil Haugen
Legend
February 23, 2024

How did you import that into Premiere?

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
wesplateAuthor
Inspiring
February 23, 2024

Drag and drop, demonstrated in the screen recording I posted.