Best Way to Capture (Digitize) Hi-8 Home Videos

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November 11, 2020
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Good morning friends,

I am looking to digitize my family's home videos.

I've actually already done so using my Sony Camcorder through capture feature of QuickTime Player, but I'm wondering how to do so in Premiere Pro.

I opened the Capture panel through File > Capture, but it doesn't seem to be detecting my camcorder (but QuickTime Player does).

How do I get Premiere Pro to recognize my camcorder that's connected to my computer? Thank you!

Best,

Brian

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salvo34

Inspiring

hmmm. thanks AverD

I'm glad PPRO still supports AVI. It was the first thing I used when I bought a VideoBlaster card about 30 years ago. But it only captured 15 fps, so after the cable run from TV to computer, it was a little choppy to say the least.

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The more support for stuff, the better, IMO ...

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salvo34

Inspiring

interesting question. I use windows pc.

years ago some guy hunted and recorded stuff (his video crew member on safari ) on a safari and I edited and had to connect some compact electronic mini tape thing to my computer, so bought the card Neil mentions ( pci-e) which was sorta like a thing that translated the incoming firewire signal and capture on HD live ( you play it and it records without dropping frames but you have to play it real time ) using ( as Stan said, scenealier cause adobe sucked at it ). I think it was cs4 back then.

the card ( blackmagic) also gives you sdi in and out so you have tons of options. Google your question and you may find inexpensive standalone units that can do what you want ... then just put that mp4 into PPro.

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salvo34

Inspiring

p.s.

make sure ( if you buy a standalone unit ) that it doesn't give an AVI file ( made by microsoft years ago), cause I don't think PPro supports that anymore.

Averdahl

Community Expert

If you use any Blackmagic Design PCIe card the standard wrapper is .avi on a Windows machine and the files are fully supported on any version of Premiere Pro. On Mac the hardware will give you .mov files. None of the cards will give you an .mp4 when capturing.

I edited .avi files captured by an Intensity Pro yesterday in Premiere Pro 14.5. The other day i edited old DV files in the .avi wrapper.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

In the past, Premiere's Capture option required the use of a Firewire input cable to the computer. Which is mostly 'dead' these days, though you can still get the gear and add in a Firewire input card to the computer.

An option oft suggested here for both solid workflow and highest quality transfer of image data from tape to digital is the Black Magic Intensity Pro 4K PCIe card ... which comes with HDMI input as well as a cord to connect to the analog R, G, and B RCA plug cords. It's a bit under $200USD, and does give as good a quality as you can get from the data.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...