Please Help - Trying to convert Samsung HMX-H104 video to something editable...

[TaylorD]

I have a number of time-lapse videos from a Samsung HMX-H104 camcorder that I would like to bring into Premiere to edit.

They can be imported into premiere, but they do not play properly. (1 frame stays up for the whole video)

Anyone know any free, or cheap, programs to convert the "H.264/MPEG-4 with AAC audio" to AVI or another uncomplicated format?

 

[AnitaPeterson]

www.Handbrake.fr

 

[TaylorD]

unless I am missing something, Handbrake is compatible with H264 and MPEG only, right?

 

[Gooberlx2]

What's the file extension? H.264 + AAC audio is about as standard as it gets.

Handbrake should accept several formats (basically anything ffdshow could decode), and outputs to mpeg4-avc (h.264), mpeg4-asp (divx, xvid) or theora video; then ac3/dts passthrough, aac, mp3 or vorbis audio.

Supported Sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
• Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Outputs:

• File format: MP4 and MKV
• Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora
• Audio: AAC, CoreAudio AAC (OS X Only), MP3, or Vorbis. AC-3 pass-through, DTS pass-thorugh (MKV only)

 

[Wekiva]

If you have Premier then you probably have Adobe Encoder (or something like that). Drag/drop all the videos into the Encoder window and tell it you want .avi video out and it will do it. I had the same problem with video shot from a Nikon D90 and a Canon 890 and Encoder cleaned them all up nicely.

 

[TaylorD]

the video from the HMX-H104 is Mp4. will try encoder.

 

[sswingle]

Premiere CS4? They released an update that improved H264 support. 4.2.1 I think