Sony DCR camcorder, Firewire and Adobe Premiere 2021

[Christopher15C2]

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.

[Peru Bob]

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

[Christopher15C2]

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]

Your hdd needs to be formatted to NTFS.

Other formats dont except files over 4 gig.

[Christopher15C2]

Ann.  Thanks.  When I right clock properties of the hard disk it states it is NTFS.

[Ann Bens]

OK there might be a setting to turn off timestamp cutting.

[John T Smith]

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

[Peru Bob]

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

[seriousvideoeditor]

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