Sony DCR camcorder, Firewire and Adobe Premiere 2021

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February 14, 2021
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I want to download video from my Sony DCR camcorder using a firewire connection, but Premiere Elements doesn’t seems to recognize the device. I can play video using WinDV. Doing a Google search (I am new to Adobe Premier) it seems like in previous versions you cannot use a firewire and Adobe Premiere to download video. Is this correct? Is it best to use WinDV for all video? I have about 20 cassettes worth of video I would like to download. Is the quality using WinDV good or is there a better option? Thank you in advance.

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seriousvideoeditor

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@Christopher15C2 What cable did you use? Is it 1394 to USB? Was it a regular laptop or any extra piece of hardware?

Peru Bob

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Increase Max AVI size (frames) in Capturing from DV device tab in Configuration settings.

John T Smith

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I have used http://www.scenalyzer.com/ and it works well, do change the default Fat32 to NTFS setting inside the program

Peru Bob

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Firewire capture has been removed from Premiere Elements since version 13.

You can use these programs for capture:

For DV: WinDV WinDV

For HDV: HDVSplit HDVSplit 0.77 beta

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Christopher15C2Author

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Bob:

Thank you. I am using WinDV and it works. Hower I took a cassette with ~2hrs of video and instead of 1 large avi file, WinDV broken in up into 10 or so smaoller files. Somwtims the break is mid video. Is that common? So can I use Premiere Elements to rejoin the segments? Thank you for your help.

Chris

Ann Bens

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Your hdd needs to be formatted to NTFS.

Other formats dont except files over 4 gig.

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