Conversion from Pinnacle

[Bobby]

I am fairly sure I know the answer, but I have to ask.

Today I was wandering through my project file archives. Back in 2004 or so I was using Pinnacle Studio. I no longer even have it installed on my PCs.

Although I don't have any specific plans to go back and work on any of those old projects, I have to ask: Is there a way to convert Pinnacle project (.stu files) to PRE?

Now please stop laughing - any chance? Thanks...

[Steve Grisetti]

If you're asking if you can open a Studio work-in-progress with Premiere Elements, the answer is unequivocally no.

The best bet is to install Studio long enough to output your work as a DV-AVI, which Premiere Elements will read as a single video file.

And, of course, if your video clips were captured as DV-AVIs, it almost doesn't matter which program you used to capture them. Premiere Elements (or pretty much any PC-based video editor) can read and edit them.

[cdeemer]

I found this, which may or may not help ...

Pinnacle Studio 11
Pinnacle Studio is a low-cost editing program that can convert AVCHD footage from its timeline to MPEG-2 HD 1080i. This can then be edited by Premiere Pro CS3.

[Bobby]

...And, of course, if your video clips were captured as DV-AVIs, it almost doesn't matter which program you used to capture them. Premiere Elements (or pretty much any PC-based video editor) can read and edit them...

Unfortunately them are MPEGs. That was one of the things that contributed to problems with Studio - they weren't really clear about what formats to capture in, and I picked the wrong one. And, Charles, the problem is not so much reading the video files as the project file itself - I would want the same transitions, cuts, etc. and it would take some work to reproduce them if I had to.

Oh well, live and learn...

[slushparlor1]

I used Pinnacle too - wow seems like so long ago. Is there any way to move the Pinnacle transitions to PE? I was just thinking about that. I think there were some heart ones that were pretty cool and I would like to use them again. Does anyone know if that is possible?

Thanks. Theresa

[RJ Johnston]

I just did a Yahoo search and this came up:

How to convert a Pinnacle Studio 10 Project to Adobe Premiere Pro.

"LINK REMOVED DUE TO AVAST WARNING"

I'm actually afraid to click on the link for fear that a message will pop up that says "Gottcha."

[Chuck Engels]

That would be very interesting if it worked

[Bobby]

I looked. It's pretty stupid / trivial. Just says open PremPro and Import!

Now, can anybody who has Pro verify that it does in fact import .sku?

[Chuck Engels]

Send me your project file Bob and I will give it a try.
chuck AT muvipix DOT com

[Bobby]

The project has an approx. 4GB mpeg file. Should I send just the small .sku project file, or do you think you would need the mpeg? I would assume that if you can open the project as far as it telling you that the file is missing, that this would be sufficient - i.e. it does support loading Studio files.

[Chuck Engels]

Just the project file should be fine, it will either open the file or it won't.
If it gets to the point of asking where the media is I think you will be ok.

[Chuck Engels]

Thanks for sending the file Bob, unfortunately it didn't work.
Premiere Pro just says, "File Format Not Supported"

I also removed the link above, the last time I connected to check the instructions AVAST went crazy - "Trojan"

[Bobby]

Well - good try - thank you.

It is not a real biggie. I think the odds of my going back and doing minor changes to those older projects are low and if I want to really re-work them, of course I will do it in PRE.