How do I use shared Google Photos files in my Premiere Pro project?

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Please excuse my ignorance, I'm relatively new to the software and don't exactly know all the terminology. A friend of mine shared a couple albums with me on Google Photos, which included both photos and videos. I did a mass download of all of those files to have them available on my computer. The files do say "compressed" I'm not sure if that's the problem? Regardless, Premiere Pro won't let me simply click and drag these files from my file explorer into the project. Just wondering if anybody might know what's going on? Any information or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

R Neil Haugen · Accepted Answer

It of course depends on the file types of the media copied ... but first, the better way to get material into Pr is to use Pr's Media Browser panel, navigate to the media on your local drive of your computer, then select it and "import" the media into Pr.

Of course, if this is a zipped file, you'd have to unzip it first using your OS utility for that in Finder/Explorer.

Then ... you can download MediaInfo, install onto your desktop ... then drag/drop one of the files onto that app's icon. It will open, and from the menu items of the app, select "Tree View". Make a screen grab of the Video section of that, and drag/drop that screengrab into your reply box for this forum. We'll be able to see the format/codec/settings used, and say whether that file will work in Pr.

Neil

MediaInfo download page: https://mediaarea.net/nn/MediaInfo/Download

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