I remembered just now that I still have Premiere 6.5 installed on my laptop.
I did a test and it handles WMV files as well without a problem.
If your Prem does not like them you must have a problem somewhere else.
Uwe
>
> At what version did premiere happily edit WMV. CS2?? ANybody have any
> idea?
>
> thanks Uwe
>
> ~ JCG
>
> --- In [email protected]
> <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>, Uwe Soltau
> <lenseye.uwe@...> wrote:
> >
> > To save you some time Lee, CS5 happily edits wmv
> > Uwe
> > >
> > > Did you mean Premiere 6.5? I know that some previous 32-bit
> versions of
> > > Premiere were susceptible to crashes when it ran out of memory;
> > > perhaps that
> > > is what you are running into. Regarding WMV, I've haven't tried
> one but I
> > > remember Bill Hunt on the Adobe forum saying that it isn't
> considered an
> > > editable compression but rather an output media format for
> end-users. I
> > > can't play with one right now but I'll try one later to see what
> > > happens in
> > > Premiere CS5.
> > >
> > > Lee
> > >
> > > From: [email protected]
> <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > [mailto:[email protected]
> <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>]
> > > On Behalf Of avantisprod
> > > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 10:42 AM
> > > To: [email protected]
> <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > <mailto:Adobe-Premiere%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > Subject: [AP] issues with Premiere 6
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello ~
> > >
> > > I have started up with premiere again after a very long absence. 2
> issues
> > > I'm having with file handling are 1) I can import 4 hour files
> into the
> > > timeline, but once I try to play it or cut it, premiere crashes
> and 2) AVI
> > > imports OK, but I cannot import certain file types such as WMV. Any
> > > suggestions? Do later versions of Premiere recognize more file types
> > > such as
> > > WMV?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > JCG
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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