.MP4 videos only import as audio files into adobe premiere pro cs3

thanks for sharing

Yup changing from .mp4 to .mov WORKS!!! and it kept the quality intact too. Thank you so much skijosh

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I have been struggling with the same problem as mike6545 for the past 3 days. Thank you skijosh, changed extension to .mov and everything running smoothly.

It is not the renaming of the extension that is fixing this, it is the adding of an extension that is fixing this problem.

As standard, a video is called 'Video'. NOTE that there is no extension. - It might be an MPG, a MOV, anything!

Premiere may not recognise it unless it is called 'Video.mpg' or 'Video.mov'

This is because File extensions are hidden.

So all you need to do is SHOW the file extensions.

To show them refer to this guide, and then try importing again!

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Show-or-hide-file-name-extensions

Cheers,

It is not the renaming of the extension that is fixing this, it is the adding of an extension that is fixing this problem.

For example:
As standard, your footage is called 'Video'. NOTE that there is no extension. - It might be an MPG, a MOV, anything!

Premiere may not recognise it unless it is called 'Video.mpg' or 'Video.mov'

This is because File extensions are hidden.

So all you need to do is SHOW the file extensions.

To show them refer to this guide, and then try importing again!

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Show-or-hide-file-name-extensions

Cheers,

PS. Hussain, do not steal peoples threads. It confuses the thread and is not fair to the original poster.

The .mp4 that I imported into premiere pro only came up as audio when I put the clip into my timeline. What worked for me, as for some of the other people here, was simply to change the file extension to .mov before I imported it into premiere pro. What an easy fix! Thanks!