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No MPEG preview or playback in Bridge CS5

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
June 4, 2010
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After doing a clean install of CS5, everything seems to work well except for Bridge.

HDV mpeg clips will not display a visual thumbnail

or playback in preview window of Bridge. When double-click

ing icon, I get an error "Windows

cannot find '%ProgramFiles(x86

)%Windows Media Player

\wmplayer.exe'.

When I double-click an AVI file, Bridge finds and uses Windows Media Player just fine.

Need MPEG preview badly!!!!

MPEG clips are working fine in Premiere Pro CS5 and AME rendering is awesome!!!

Thanks, rg

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rickg1949Author

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Ann, I totally agree. I hated to load some third party creature into my work($$$$)station when I never had to before. Makes me nervous having those tray icons for ffdshow popping up when I look at footage and one codec to see the mpeg video and another to see the audio in the same clip. Hope we get an answer (and a fix) from Adobe some time soon. Right now I'm working, but things don't seem to have the zip and snap that was there in Premiere before I installed that codec package. Maybe it's just my old-age-brain, but after driving Premiere for as long as I have (and as much), you get that feeling in your gut.

Plus paying $900 for an upgrade, you'd think one wouldn't need a free-bie download to make it work. Right???

All the best,

Rick

Ann Bens

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Its even recommended when using Premiere Pro (check the forum) not to install ffshow or any codec pack because it messes up your system.

rickg1949Author

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What if I were to re-install CS 4? think that might re-add the missing CODEC or WMplayer link?

Just noticed that all my HDV-mpeg clips (even those captured using CS 5) will not play in WMplayer on Vista 64bit edit station now.

So frustrating, since Bridge is my inventory manager/sorter. Have some many projects, so much material, almost 6Tbytes of clips that are used over and over.

A

Anonymous

I made a leap that Bridge CS5 was also 64 bit, but do not know that. I think CS4 bridge was still 32 bit.

A reinstall of CS4 on one of the machines would tell a lot of the videos play there. Then you might be able to do a comparision of what CS4 has that CS5 does not.

Not sure what "Just noticed that all my HDV-mpeg clips (even those captured using CS 5) will not play in WMplayer on Vista 64bit edit station now" means. They played befoe on WM player did they not?

A

Anonymous

Hi Curt,

This Brdge issue is separate from the Ps file open issue.

thx,

steve

Steve,

Thanks for the clearification. Perhaps you can clear up another issue.

Video files seem to play with the Windows Media Player. And yet I know there is some dependance of Quicktime in Bridge. In fact you asked the OP what version he was using. So when is WMP used and when is Quicktime used?

Thanks

S

Stone.Pan

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can WMP playback your hdv MPEG? Bridge should use WMP's MPEG codec. Premiere Pro CS5 and AME has embedded MPEG codec, but Bridge can't use it.

rickg1949Author

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Files play via Windows Media player OK. On my workstation laptop (Windows 7 Pro), Bridge provides me a visual thumbnail of the clip but no player in the preview pane. On my edit workstation (Vista Ultimate 64 bit) I don't get either, but clips play in Windows Media Player.

Any way to create the connection needed?

Just installed update 4.0.2. No change.

S

Stone.Pan

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can you purge the video file in thumbnail panel to get new thumbnail?

I can playback mpeg video in bridge on my windows 7 64bit machine.

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