Adobe Premiere Elements a video editing app tailored to novice editors and consumers. Adobe claims that Premiere Elements supports MP4 importing, but there are many problems occured when working MP4 files with Premiere Elements:
I just bought Premiere Elements 11 and would like to edit some video produced by a screen capture program. The capture program is called Bandicam, and according to the VLC video player, the video codec is 'mpeg 1/2'. The actual file type is AVI. When i try to import this file, Premiere Elements says.
Q1: Trouble importing mp4 file to Premiere Elements 12
Importing a 964.1 meg mp4 file from DVD using Premiere Elements 12 on a Macbook Air running OS X 10.9.2. Doesn’t appear to import, though a blank thumbnail appears in organizer. When I attempt to open the file, I get a missing codec error message.
Q2: Premiere Elements 10 no sound for MP4 files
How can I get the premiere elements 10 to recognize sound in MP4 files? Shows no sound track and yet there is one.
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Actually, this is because MP4 is a container format which can hold various video and audio codecs. Premiere Elements prefer MPEG-4 and H.264 codecs instead of others. To make MP4 compatible with Premiere Elements, the easy option is to convert MP4 to a more editing-friendly format like MPEG-2 for Premiere Elements. This article would show you how to transcode MP4 to Premiere Elements on Mac with a professional and easy-to-use app entitled Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac (Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion included). If you’re facing problems editing with Premiere Elements, chances are you already installed this great utility. If not download from here.
The guide below will teach you how to convert and import MP4 to Premiere Elements so you can make engaging movies with MP4, WMV, MOV and other video files. If you’re using a Windows (Windows 8 included) computer, please turn to Brorsoft Video Converter.
How to convert MP4 to MPEG-2 codec for Premiere Elements
Step 1: Install and launch Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac and you can import MP4 clips to the program through “Add Video” button or just drag and drop the files to the program. If you like, check the “Merge into one” box to join MP4 clips together.
Step 2: Set output format. Click “Format” drop-down bar to select a proper video format. To edit MP4 videos in Adobe Premiere Elements, then Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2 (*.mpg) is the suitable one.
Tip: The MP4 to Premiere Converter enables users to adjust audio and video settings before transcoding AVCHD files to MPEG-2. Click “Settings” button, then you will enter the following interface, on which you are allowed to customize size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel to your required ones.
Step 3: Finally, hit the big Convert button on bottom of the main windows and the conversion from MP4 to Premiere Elements will begin immediately.
After the conversion is complete, get the resulted files via clicking the Open button and then you can import MP4 to Adobe Premiere Elements for further editing without any hassle.
- Tweet; Tweet; Premiere Elements MP4 editing issue “I made an mp4 video in premiere Elements 12 (for playing on iPad) and now I want to import the mp4 file into another premiere Elements project. When i try to import the file, it just hangs and does nothing when i select the mp4 file (get the spinning beach ball that never stops until i force quit premiere Elements. I am on a mac running osx.
- To edit MP4 videos in Adobe Premiere Elements, then Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas MPEG-2 (.mpg) is the suitable one. Tip: The MP4 to Premiere Converter enables users to adjust audio and video settings before transcoding AVCHD files to MPEG-2.
- I recently had my first go at trimming a video file (.mp4) using my bona fide copy of Adobe Premier Elements 13. When I tried to save it, the only option was 'Adobe.prel file', rather than a full drop down menu with multiple file type options, such as MPEG, AVI, FLV, MP4, etc.
| Format and filename extension |
| 3GPP (.3gp) |
| Audio Video Interleave (.avi) |
| AVCHD (.m2ts, .mts)* |
| H.264 (.mp4, .m4v) |
| H.264-encoded QuickTime (.mov, .mp4, .m4v) |
| HEVC/H.265 (.mov, .mp4, .m4v) [macOS 10.13 and later] [Windows 10 version 1809 (x64bit) or higher. Windows 8.1 is not supported] |
| HEIF/HEIC [macOS 10.13 and later] |
| MOD (.mod) |
| MPEG-1 (.mpeg) |
| MPEG-2 (.m2v, .mpg) |
| MPEG-2 Transport Stream (.m2t)* |
| QuickTime (.mov, .m4a) |
| Video Object (DVD video) (.vob) * |
| Windows Media (.wmv) [Windows-only] |
| Format and filename extension |
| 3GPP (.3gp) |
| Audio Video Interleave (.avi) [Windows-only] |
| H.264 (.mp4) |
| H.264-encoded QuickTime (.mov, .mp4) |
| MPEG-1 (.mpeg) |
| MPEG-2 (.mpg) |
| MPEG-4 (.mp4) |
| QuickTime (.mov) |
| Video Object (DVD video) (.vob) |
| Windows Media (.wmv) [Windows-only] |
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Still images and image sequence file formats - import
| Format and filename extension |
| Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop sequence (.psd) |
| Adobe Premiere title (.prtl) |
| Animated GIF (.gif) |
| Bitmap and Bitmap sequence (.bmp, .rle) |
| Camera raw files (.cr2, .dng, .nef, .orf, and others) |
| CompuServe GIF (.gif) [Windows-only] |
| JPEG and JPEG sequence (.jpg, .jpeg) |
| Portable Network Graphics (.png) |
| TIFF and TIFF sequence (.tif, .tiff) |
Still images and image sequence file formats - export
| Format and filename extension |
| JPEG and JPEG sequence (.jpe, .jpg, .jpeg) |
| Animated GIF (.gif) |
| Format and filename extension |
| Adaptive Multi-Rate Compression (.amr) |
| Audio Interchange File Format (.aif, .aiff) |
| Advanced Audio Coding (.aac) |
| Dolby Digital (.ac3)* |
| MPEG audio (.mp3) |
| QuickTime audio (.mov) |
| Waveform (.wav) [Windows-only] |
| Windows Media audio (.wma) [Windows-only] |
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| Format and filename extension |
| Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff) |
| Advanced Audio Coding (.aac) |
| MPEG audio (.mp3) |
| QuickTime audio (.mov) |