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can't import a JPEG: "video bit depth of this file is unsupported"

Explorer ,
May 08, 2013 May 08, 2013

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Re above error message when attempting to import into a Premiere CS6 project.  I used Media Info to inspect the file's properties as per below. All of the video in my project  is 8bit video. Any help is much appreciated..

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Format                                     : JPEG

Width                                        : 1 306 pixels

Height                                       : 979 pixels

Color space                             : YUV

Bit depth                                   : 8 bits

Compression mode                : Lossy

Stream size                              : 2.83 MiB (100%)

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LEGEND , May 09, 2013 May 09, 2013

Change Color Space to RGB

Jeff Pulera

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LEGEND ,
May 08, 2013 May 08, 2013

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Open the image in Photoshop.  Go to Image>Mode... and change it to 8 bits/channel there.

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Explorer ,
May 08, 2013 May 08, 2013

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Hi Jim,

 

In "Image/Mode", it says that it already is 8bit per channel, as

it does in Media Info.

 

 

Wade Smith

 

 

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Enthusiast ,
May 09, 2013 May 09, 2013

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From Photoshop, save the image as a BMP file (or TIFF for Mac) and import the BMP file.

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May 09, 2013 May 09, 2013

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Hi, Save-As BMP is not available.

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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Change Color Space to RGB

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Explorer ,
May 09, 2013 May 09, 2013

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Hi Jeff, thanks!!

I guess one cannot import cannot import a CMYK image in Premiere at all.

When I inspected the image in Media Info it ID'd it as a YUV and so I assumed that the imagwe was converted for use in a video that they'd created sometime in the past.

Is there even such a format as YUV for still images? Probably not even though Media Info ID'd it as such.

Anyway, Photoshop ID'd it as CMYK and when converted to RGB that did the trick! 

Thanks!

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015

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Hi!!

I had the same problem. I tried to import a jpg file into a Premiere Projet without success. And you were right: the file that I was  trying to import was made in a CMYK mode. I have changed the mode and... voilà!!!, the file was imported without problems.

Thanks for your advice.

(sorry if my english is not so good )

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May 10, 2023 May 10, 2023

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Thank you!!

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Sep 14, 2023 Sep 14, 2023

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Hi Jeff, I would not have figured this out easily so thank you very much for the answer!

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New Here ,
Apr 04, 2018 Apr 04, 2018

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your JPEG material might be CMYK. Just open first your jpeg mat in PS>MODE>RGB>SAVE AS>JPEG, then try to import in premiere, it will work!

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Oct 01, 2020 Oct 01, 2020

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hello i had the same problem, just change the image mode to RGB color, its will work. 

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