Can't upload to Amazon.com

[Chirp]

Hi and thanks!
I am trying to upload a video I edited in PRE8 to Amazon_dot_com but they keep telling me it's the wrong file type (after the whole upload process completes, of course). They want avi, mov, mpg, or wmv. When I go to 'Share' in PRE8 I get mpeg2, flv etc. I did get an avi file once but when I tried to test it before uploading it I couldn't get it to open in WMP, of Quicktime or Realplayer. My original file is from a SD card from a camcorder and it is in the mts format. How do I get the finished file from PRE8 to be saved as avi, mov, mpg or wmv? I've been at this for too long now. Can someone please steer me in the right direction?

Thanks!

[RJ Johnston]

You'll have to wait for somebody that has actually uploaded to Amazon so they can give you the exact specifications.

Unfortunately, listing the file extensions is not much help. There are any number of different codecs that can be contained in those file types you listed.

Can you provide a link to the Amazon web page where they describe the requirements?

EDIT: I see it's your first post. Welcome to Muvipix!

[Steve Grisetti]

Hi, Chirp. Welcome to Muvipix!

Can you be a bit more specific about why you're trying to load a video to Amazon.com? Are you publishing it for sale?

As Robert says, can you direct us to the web page where they describe the file specs they need? I'm sure we'll be able to show you to give them a file optimized exactly as they need it.

[Chirp]

I am trying to enter a video review of a knife I purchased from them (Amazon). The only time I have ever actually seen the specs is when I tried to upload a video review and it didn't work and I got an error. As I said the error says it wants one of four formats... .avi, .mov, .mpg., .wmv.

Thanks!

By the way I did get a video review uploaded in the past but that was with a different camcorder that was dvd based. I don't have access to that camcorder anymore and I will be using this one from now on.

[Steve Grisetti]

Okay, I've found a place where they let you enter video reviews -- and you're right, they're not very specific, other than saying it must be under 100 meg in size and under 10 minutes.

I'd recommend you create a WMV using the Cable Modem preset. That's a nice, universal format. Create it using Share/Personal Computer and save it to your hard drive, then connect to Amazon and do the upload. It should work fine.

BTW, you don't say what project setting you're using in Premiere Elements to create your project, but that too could be an issue. As I say in our Basic Training with Premiere Elements tutorials, choosing a preset to match your source footage is vital to creating a successful project. Particularly if you're using footage that saved to a Flash memory card, this is true. Is your footage AVCHD or AVCHD Lite? 1920x1080, 1440x1080 or 1280x720?

You can see these tutorials by going to our products page and typing "Basic Training" in the product search box.