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escrge1843
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March 28, 2017
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Importing Security Camera Footage

  • March 28, 2017
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I have an LTS LTD8308T-ST 8 Channel Platinum Series High Resolution DVR Recorder running security cameras around my house.  I'm trying to export recorded video from a single camera and import it into Premiere Pro CC.  The DVR exports to MP4 format, however, I keep getting a "generic error" when trying to import to Premiere Pro.  Media Encoder won't read it and Windows Media Player won't play it, either.

However, I can upload to YouTube, then download it again and I can import just fine.  Here's a link to the exported video on my Dropbox.

Can someone help me figure out how to import video of this type without having to resort to YouTube?

EDIT:

My iPhone can play the footage without any problem or alterations.

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    JohnGatapia
    Participant
    May 17, 2022

    Did you manage to solve this? I am also in the same problem now. 

     

     

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    escrge1843Author
    Participant
    March 28, 2017

    John,

    Thanks for your reply.  Here's the screenshot you asked for...

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    funkytwig
    Inspiring
    April 2, 2020

    It's actually fairly easy, you don't even have to transcode it (as such) but you do need to rewrite the header from MPEG-PS to MPEG-4.  Then PP will import. 

     

    You need to install https://www.ffmpeg.org/ and do the following

     

    ffmpeg -filename.mp4 -flags +global_header -vcodec copy -acodec copy filename_converted.mp4

     

    You can even delete the original after as it is basically exactly the same video payload with a rewritten header.

     

    This works for Hickvivion IP cameras, if DVR cameras have ethe same problem this should work.

     

    Enjoy;).

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    xiao31578128kuc7
    Participant
    October 23, 2023

    Hello,I don't know how to use ffmpeg at all.Could you please explain the detail for us?

    Thank you so much!

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 28, 2017

    MP4 is a wrapper, what is inside YOUR wrapper - Exactly what is INSIDE the video you are editing?

    Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... A screen shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing - For Windows Internet Explorer press the PRINT SCREEN button on your keyboard, and then do CTRL-V to paste the screen print from the clipboard into a forum message

    Free programs to get file information for PC/Mac http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download POST IN TREE VIEW

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    Does your video use a VARIABLE Frame Rate? See https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1110005

    If yes, use https://handbrake.fr/ open source transcoder/converter to convert to Constant Frame Rate

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