Premiere Elements MP4 H.264 imports only audio

[sirtoby]

Hey guys. Amd recently launched some new features for their Gaming Evolved Windows program. One of those is game recording, similar to Nvidias Shadowplay. I recorded some gameplay with it and it worked just fine. I set it up to record at 1080p, 50Mb/s. It outputed a h.264 encoded .mp4 file, that I could watch in VLC without any problems. The issue is, that if I import the file into Premiere Elements 12 to cut it together for Youtube, it only imports the audio. I tried several games and several different settings in Gaming evolved and it was allways the same result. I then converted the original Video to a mp4 h.264 and that worked in PE without any problems. Does somebody know a fix for that in either Gam.Evo. or PE? Thanks

[sirtoby]

I managed to solve it myself. The descibed problem is a bug, that Premiere Elements has in several revisions. It only imports audio for some .mp4 and .avi files. I have no idea why Adobe doesn't fix that. The solution I came up with is to change the name of the file from "test.mp4" to "test.mov". This lets me import Audio and Video into PE. Why isn't a bug (that exists at least since PE 9), that is so easy to fix, not yet repaired?

[chrisking]

One possible solution is to change the name of the file from ".mp4" to ".mov" as you mentioned. If it won’t work, you have to get some help from third-party software to convert MP4 to MOV or MPEG-2 to solve the MP4 to Premiere Elements issues.

 

Source from: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1548912

[sirtoby]

One possible solution is to change the name of the file from ".mp4" to ".mov" as you mentioned. If it won’t work, you have to get some help from third-party software to convert MP4 to MOV or MPEG-2 to solve the MP4 to Premiere Elements issues.

 

Source from: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1548912

Thank you, but please don't dig out old threads that have already been solved several months ago.

[lydia622520]

guys always meet problems while importing MP4 videos to Adobe Premiere Elements: no sound track, missing codec error message…

Some people mentioned that they could import the MP4 videos into Premiere Elements after changing its extension to MOV. I tried this method and hoped that it can help me out. However, once I changed its extension, the file can not be played well on computer. So I need to go further to find a perfect solution. Fortunately, I found a best way to make MP4 compatible with Premiere Elements 11.

To transfer MP4 to Premiere Elements 11without problem, we just need to encode MP4 to MPEG-2 with a third party program.

[julietann]

guys always meet problems while importing MP4 videos to Adobe Premiere Elements: no sound track, missing codec error message…

Some people mentioned that they could import the MP4 videos into Premiere Elements after changing its extension to MOV. I tried this method and hoped that it can help me out. However, once I changed its extension, the file can not be played well on computer. So I need to go further to find a perfect solution. Fortunately, I found a best way to make MP4 compatible with Premiere Elements 11.

To transfer MP4 to Premiere Elements 11without problem, we just need to encode MP4 to MPEG-2 with a third party program.

Well, thanks, Premiere Element always ingest MPEG-2 perfectly,  transocoding MP4 files to MPEG-2 is an easy way to edit MP4 videos in Premiere Elements. Good share!

[sirtoby]

guys always meet problems while importing MP4 videos to Adobe Premiere Elements: no sound track, missing codec error message…

Some people mentioned that they could import the MP4 videos into Premiere Elements after changing its extension to MOV. I tried this method and hoped that it can help me out. However, once I changed its extension, the file can not be played well on computer. So I need to go further to find a perfect solution. Fortunately, I found a best way to make MP4 compatible with Premiere Elements 11.

To transfer MP4 to Premiere Elements 11without problem, we just need to encode MP4 to MPEG-2 with a third party program.

 

 

Well, thanks, Premiere Element always ingest MPEG-2 perfectly,  transocoding MP4 files to MPEG-2 is an easy way to edit MP4 videos in Premiere Elements. Good share!

 

Thanks, but  stop digging out old threads. this was solved over 6 months ago.