Now in Beta: Removing Tape and Capture Workflows

[mattchristensen]

Following on from our announcement last year, we are removing tape and capture workflows from Premiere Pro, starting with the public Beta version 23.3 (build 14).

What is being removed:

• Edit to Tape panel 
• Capture panel 
• Support for third-party capture plug-ins 
• Capture project settings 

• Preferences > Capture 
• Preferences > Device Control 
• Menu commands related to the above functionality 
• Keyboard shortcuts related to the above functionality 

What is not being removed:

• Support for third-party Mercury Transmit plug-ins
• Exporting to XDCAM drives mounted as a file system 

We expect most editors won’t notice a change using this new version of Premiere Pro (Beta). If you do encounter any issues, especially with opening older projects that used tape capture in the past, please let us know in a comment below. Thank you! 

[EAddison]

Can't say I'm a fan of this....still ingest from the old DSR-11 around once or twice a year. And I still master DVCAM tapes with footage I may need.

I get that it's use is rare, but it does come up.

[the automatic]

Hi,

For us it would require keeping around an old version of Premiere as we have a massive archive of DVcam tapes (NHS Hospital department) and often have to capture from these and miniDV from patient records as not every department has upgraded to modern equipment.... dissapointing if this is the case. can still capture via Quicktime but not as seamless as in the editor (device control etc)

[Stan Jones]

For those looking for an alternative...

I was never a fan of PR capture, and was always SD only in the tape age. My go to was Scenalyzer:
http://www.scenalyzer.com/

As I say, its main drawback was it was only for capturing SD material.

It is no longer supported, but available free. It was working on Win10 last time I used it.

I don't recall if it recorded back to tape.

Stan

[theok8577996]

We use it everyday in our controlrooms to quick capture some presentions and teaser.

I would suggest at MXF HDCAM 1080i capture when using a Blackmagic card.

For HD broadcasters this is still very handy...

[Trevor_Asq]

Niche use but we still use capture tool to grab near live sources on OBs (i.e. play back from EVS channel into PP is quicker than exporting a clip)

[Louis Peluso]

if i understand this correctly, the "development" of disallowing me to import from a tape deck? is a serious degradation for me. I have a ROOMFULL of min-dv tapes and a bunch of assorted other masters that are going to need to be digitized in the next two years and just like removing encore (which i am STILL angry at) it takes an old, standard, and useful function and destroys it for me. NOT happy. unless im wrong about the functionality.