problem with video imported into premiere

[bobspluming]

So I am trying to do some video anaylsis on a video that was recored my a security camera. The video was originally recored in h.264 format, then converted to avi using a program called AviGenerator, which was included with the security camera and dvr. The converted avi files play fine in windows media player, do not import correctly into adobe premiere. When I import the video into premier, the entire video length should be 15 min. According to the premeire timeline, the video is 15 min, however the video has a time and date stamp at the top which shows that only 10 sec of the video was imported and it is being streched out to 15 min, making the video play extremely slowly. I think this is a codec related problem but am not sure how to go about solving it. any help would be appreciated

[edDV]

So I am trying to do some video anaylsis on a video that was recored my a security camera. The video was originally recored in h.264 format, then converted to avi using a program called AviGenerator, which was included with the security camera and dvr. The converted avi files play fine in windows media player, do not import correctly into adobe premiere. When I import the video into premier, the entire video length should be 15 min. According to the premeire timeline, the video is 15 min, however the video has a time and date stamp at the top which shows that only 10 sec of the video was imported and it is being streched out to 15 min, making the video play extremely slowly. I think this is a codec related problem but am not sure how to go about solving it. any help would be appreciated

Which version Premiere?

AVI is a container. Says nothing about the codec. Use Mediainfo to find out and post here.

Better to convert your video to DV format for analysis in Premiere.

[poisondeathray]

If this is security footage, you could make the argument not to convert at all , especially with a lossy format - you could be losing vital data or obscuring views like license plates, faces etc... with compression artifacts

Newer versions of premiere can import h.264 footage, but most security software is encrypted and require proprietary decoders. Sometimes there are workarounds (maybe through graphedit) , but you have to provide more information on the original file

[bobspluming]

Im using CS4 pro, and it wont let me import the h.264 files directly, although I can try using graphedit. I ran one of the files through MediaInfo, heres what it gave

General
__________________________________________________ ______________
AVI: 99.0 Mib, 18mn 29s
1 Video stream : AVC
1
Audio stream: ADPCM (Intel)
__________________________________________________ ____________
Video
__________________________________________________ ____________
724 Kbps, 720*576(3:2), at 30.00 fps, AVC (PAL)(Baseline@L2.0)(1 Ref Frames)
__________________________________________________ _________
Audio
__________________________________________________ ___________
32.0 Kbps, 8 000 Hz, 1 channel, ADPCM (Intel)

[poisondeathray]

Do you have an vfw h.264 decoder installed ?

If not, you can use ffdshow and enable h.264/avc in the vfw configuration (gold icon)

Once you've done this, can you open it in virtualdub ?

When you render the original file in graphstudio or graphedit , do the pins connect and what boxes are connected ?

Another approach would be to re-wrap the video into a different container e.g. .mp4 using yamb , or .m2ts using tsmuxer

If you post a sample clip, I can have a look at it (I have CS4 installed on one of my computers)