AC3/A52 audio codec for Premiere

[Lame Tigrrrr]

Good day, everyone. I'm alive again.

I have a video with a A52/AC3 audio on it and apparently the premiere installed in my PC cannot decode it so I have to extract the audio with another software. Ain't there some other way (needless to say, premiere A52/AC3 codec) that I can import my video to my pr pro project in which pr can read its audio data?

I'm using prprocs3.

[Harm_Millaard]

This may sound lame, Tiger, but I have only heard of the A52 as a highway, regularly filled with serious traffic jams.

AC3 is imported without problems.

BTW, I use ProcMon 9.

[Lame Tigrrrr]

Hello, Millaard. Can you still remember re misspelling your name?

Anyway, about this A52 audio, there's no kidding here. It's there existing. I played my video in VLC, look for its audio stream and it says a52. I googled a52 and I found a page saying a52 is just the same as ac3, both are dolby digital sound. Well, I don't about their particularities but problem is that pr can't recognize the audio of my video.

Thanks for your quick reply.

[Lame Tigrrrr]

By the way, here's the media information of my asset:

[Lame Tigrrrr]

But I just found something here:http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/premiere/pro/import/mpeg-ac3.html. I hope this would solve my problem.

[John T Smith]

To work with AC3 sound files in Premiere CS3, copy the ad2ac3dec.dll file from the Encore CS3 directory into the Premiere directory

[Lame Tigrrrr]

Thanks John. But I had just done what you've said. Now I am just waiting for Pr to finish indexing and creating peak files for my assets.

[dkitsov]

This is a long shot (I am away from my workstation computer) but try importing the file in question into audition and then exporting it as something that PPro understands.

[Mavoz Australia]

Thanks for the quick reply...much appreciated.

I don't have Audition with the laptop I'm on (don't think they included that with Cs5 bundle)...

but I'm trying Media Encoder instead as I write.....so thanks for the tip.

(I need to get this done within the next hour or so! Have already been working on it for about 2 hours)

I also tried Virtual Dub...I used the standard "Save AVI" feature...it produced another AVI file..that again plays fine in various media players...but when I import it into Premiere Pro...only the video comes in...and no audio track at all...

Various posts refer to using Virtual Dub to convert to DV AVI...but unfortunately I cannot find any explanation of how exactly to do this...there is no "Save or export to  DV AVI" option I can find in Virtual Dub....(I've tried downloading a VFW Panasonic Codec...which apparently is of some help with this)

Other option might be After Effects I guess...or maybe a free video editor off the net?

Open to anything at this point!

Thanks!

[dkitsov]

I am sorry, but what version are you running? I just have successfully imported ac3 file in my Premiere Pro CS5.5 as well as CS5. Perhaps an issue not with an audio codec but with a wrapper of your file? OR maybe the video portion of it?

Edit: never mind, didn't notice the Ppro CS3 in your original post.

[Mavoz Australia]

Actually you might be on the right track...I am running Cs5 Premiere Pro...from what I understand it should work...it just doesn't!

It certainly works fine to play in media player/VLC media player/DivXX player....just not in Premiere Pro Cs5...

so I don't know what I can do...

thanks for the reply.

[Mavoz Australia]

Well I found a solution...a program called Format Factory!

Very simple with multiple export options!

Converted to Mpeg4 and Premiere Pro handled that fine.

Thanks everyone.