avi files fine, but then my hard drive started sending failure eminent warnings so I saved everything I could (for some reason I was never able to save a backup with my old system), I got a new hard drive, loaded a clean new Windows 7 install and built my system from there. I have used Premiere Elements 11 for a few years and never had any problems with codecs, it ran. The program has to support the video compression as well as the format that wraps it. Some have reported import of the DivX codec and successful use of it in Premiere Elements as the video codec, but others have had problems with it.

The Xvid is notorious as a bad choice of Xvid.avi. Many prefer working with that added on video compression type rather than the what is. But it can be downloaded and installed, and it then does appear in the choices of video compression in the AVI section of the exports. The Lagarith video codec that I referred to in my post in this thread is not included with the program. avi with different video compression that do not work well with Premiere Elements avi are compatible and/or work well with Premiere Elements. Numerous video compression types can be wrapped with it. It is giving off 'Sorry, this page is not available'.ĪVI is a wrapper format that wraps the video and audio compression of a file. I suspect premiere might not like this name, either it should be 'mpeg 1' or 'mpeg 2', I think. Dont know if yall noticed that I mentioned it. By the way everyone, VLC told me the name of the codec in my problem file. I've now encountered a difficulty with using premiere elements, but I think I should post in a new thread. This conversion takes ages, but it works. So I ditched that solution and tried Bandicam's other suggestion, which is to convert the mpeg-1 avi to another format using a free program called 'format factory'. it also resulted in frequent stuttering of the video, due to the high disk activity. I tried it, and it yielded about 10x bigger files than the original mpeg-1 codec that I was using. This is supposed to give better quality and smaller file sizes. Instead, they suggest a 3rd party codec called Lagarith. Their first solution is to switch to the motion JPEG codec, but they warn that this will result in lower quality. i went to Bandicams website and searched for premiere elements, and it appears that they are fully aware of this problem. That wasn't me, I've never asked this question in any other forum.

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