No audio on imported .AVI

[CanadaBrad]

Hi, ok, i'm relatively new to Adobe but not completely. I imported a very long .AVI file about 60 min. in length, when i play it out of the library area the video and audio work fine everything runs smoothly. If i drag it into the timeline the audio ceases to work in any way. I tried cutting out a chunk and rendering it but nothing happened. I'm not sure if there is a way to upgrade premiere's audio codecs but like i said it works fine when played out of the library window. I'm curious if if export it if it will play.
Here's my technical info. I'm running Windows XP Pro, on a AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with 768 megs of ram and a Geforce 4 MX440. I'm pretty sure i have all needed codecs. Any suggestions at all would be great, i really need these clips

thanks,
BRAD

 

[CanadaBrad]

Oops, almost forgot. I'm running Adobe premiere 6.5 thanks.

 

[WizyWyg]

on the timeline where the video and audio track names are, on that track for that video's audio, is the "speaker" x'ed out or not?

 

[CanadaBrad]

no it is not Xed out.. i double clicked on the audio, and there is none listed there at all...

but i did solve this.. (that hard way) i converted the whole file using software off of

http://www.VCDhelp.com

to MPEG1 format or whatever and now the audio (though the quality suffered a little) works. i am a very happy person but thanks for replying none the less.

BRAD

p.s. hope this helps others.

 

[WizyWyg]

And if you are still seeing this thread, you may want to Download Virtual Dub, to extract the audio out of your original file, into a wav file, and import that into your timeline, hence not affecting the quaity.

 

[GEAK]

I've run into a similar problem and as WizyWyg indicated, the solution was to use Virtual Dub and either extract the audio into a wav file or to re-encode the entire avi (using direct stream copy for video and full processing mode for audio).

I found that by doing the latter it prevented potential a/v sync problems that might occur when you just extract the audio.

Incidentally, I've found that this issue is quite common to AVIs that are encoded using the XviD codec (an open source version of DivX). Apparently the AVIs have a single video stream but multiple audio streams - each one (other than the first) triggered to start at an offset. It seems that premiere doesn't recognize the second (or third) audio stream and won't display it or give access to it.

 

[CanadaBrad]

hmm interesting, well i appeciate all the input, now at lesat i know of several solutions thanks a bunch

BRAD