Adobe MPEG-2 Support

Grr!

After struggling last time to import MPEG-2 files in Premier Pro, this week I have been having issues with poor support for the encoding in After Effects. There is a problem where the rendering suffers from red artifacts, normally filling the entire frame.

This is not a problem with the source as I can play the file in other software without issue, but the red flicker is being introduce in After Effects. After browsing the web for this issue, the concensus seems to be to convert your video files from MPEG-2 into something else before editing them, however, this is a time consuming process and adds the possibility of introducing more errors.

To add insult to injury, whenever I try to report an issue on the Adobe support site, it seems to be down for maintainance (do they do this every Saturday?).