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Premiere Pro CS 5.5

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October 1, 2024
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Dear colleagues,

I have films on mini DV cassettes, recorded with a digital Sony HDV - HDR-HCIE PAL camera. I try to import these in Premiere Pro CS 5.5 but without any success. I use Windows 11 home edition.

Who can help me?

kind regards,

Antoine

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toon1540Author

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Many thanks for your answer. I have a FireWire port and the apprppriate cable. Attached you find the message I get when going to "File" and "Capture", "Capture device offline". It seems to be impossible to capture the footage. Can you help me?

kind regards, Antoine

20241002_premiere_pro_capture_failure.pdf

Averdahl

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It was a long time ago i captured tapes, so i hope i get this right. But it do remember the Capture Device Offline...

When connecting the camera, make sure that Premiere Pro is closed. When you power up the camera, make sure to change from recording mode to playback mode. When the camera is on and ready to go, launch Premiere Pro. Your camera is capable of recording both DV and HDV. I assume that you have recorded HDV, so then you must create a HDV project in Premiere Pro to capture it. You cannot capture HDV in a DV project and vice versa.

Premiere Pro´s capture engine is problematic and many people including myself used a third party tool to capture tapes only to avoid the hassles in Premiere Pro. For HDV you can use HDVSplit 0.77 beta Free Download - VideoHelp and for DV you can use ScenalyzerLive. Both apps are free and do their job perfectly.

It seems to be impossible to capture the footage. Can you help me?

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toon1540Author

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Dear Averdahl,

Many thanks for your advice and help. Finally I succeeded to capture the footage from the DV mini cassettes. The program "scenalyerlive" was not helpful. It alwys gave the same and un expected error. The other software did not help at all as it was impossible to install it. I did not find out why an installation was impossible.

Averdahl

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If you not yet have captured the DV tapes you cannot import them. You must capture the tape/s first.

If you have captured the tape/s and cannot import the files created when you captured, what error message do you get?

To capture the tape/s, you must connect the camera to the computers FireWire port, launch Premiere Pro and go to File > Capture or just hit F5 on the keyboard. The problem is that modern computers don´t have FireWire ports today.

I have films on mini DV cassettes, recorded with a digital Sony HDV - HDR-HCIE PAL camera. I try to import these in Premiere Pro CS 5.5 but without any success.

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Ann Bens

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My experienced has been I could not capture with CS 5.5 and W11 , had to resort to W10.

W11 (no legacy driver) does support FireWire, but has trouble recognizing the camera.

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toon1540Author

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Dear Ann,

I finally was able to capture the footage from the DV mini casettes, It was a matter of the right settings in the computer, the camera and the program. But it is true that my software has trouble to recognize my camera. Many thanks for your help and advice.

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