I can't connect my vintage Sony DV camera to premier pro

Question

If anyone can help with this would be most appreciative as no-one seems to know anything about this these connections and old DV 
cameras days...yes I'm that old!! 
 
I'm trying to digitise some old DV tapes using a SONY MINI DV DCR-HC51E through my mac pro using Montgomery 12.2.1 (late 2013 bin) via the FIREWIRE CABLE to THUNDERBOLT ADAPTER  but the mac / premier (V23.5)  not capturing. I go to capture it can see the device in DEVICE CONTROL and I can start and stop the camera with premier but i can't seem to capture  /digisitse any content.  says CAPTURE DEVICE OFFLINE. 
 
Anyone has this issue before?
Do I need a specific cable?
 
The Firewire / Thunderbolt adapter cable gets the connection but the USB cable doesnt even show the device control in premier .

RjL190365 · Answer

I'd hate to tell you this, but Adobe has already begun to depreciate all tape-based captures.

In addition, newer Macs and newer versions of MacOS now either no longer support DV capturing at all or their tape-based capture support no longer works properly. If you do have such a newer Mac, or a Mac that has a newer version of MacOS (11.0 Big Sur or newer), then you're very much out of luck. And even if you do find an older Mac that's running Mojave (10.14) or older, the supported older version of Premiere Pro is now no longer available at all via the Creative Cloud app.

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