Premiere Pro CS 5.5

[toon1540]

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

[Averdahl]

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.

By @toon1540

[Ann Bens]

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.

[toon1540]

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.

[toon1540]

It finally was difficult to capture the tapes in the correct format. I do not know how to reach the responsible person at Adobe's but it is necessary to improve this issue even in older versions of Première Pro. I am satisfied with my version and do not have the need at alle to change it.

Anyway many thanks for your efforts to help. -:)

[toon1540]

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

[Averdahl]

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?

By @toon1540

[toon1540]

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]

Good to hear that it worked out in the end! 🙂

Many thanks for your advice and help. Finally I succeeded to capture the footage from the DV mini cassettes. 

By @toon1540

[toon1540]

It finally was difficult to capture the tapes in the correct format and as I wrote you the free software was completely useless, impossible to install or always giving errors, which could not be solved as nor help nor update were possible. I do not know how to reach the responsible person at Adobe's but it is necessary to improve this issue even in older versions of Première Pro. I am satisfied with my version and do not have the need at alle to change it.

Anyway many thanks for your efforts to help. -:)

[Averdahl]

There wont be any updates/improvements for Premiere Pro CS 5.5 so contacting Adobe wont do anything regarding capture in CS 5.5. When CS6 were released in 2012 the work/updates on CS 5.5 stopped. The capture feature is gone from the most recent versions of Premiere Pro and that should be a hint of that improving capture of tapes is not on Adobes radar at all. 

If the free software was impossible to install it points to an issue with your computer. Do you use an Administrator with full rights account or a user account with restrictions?

I do not know how to reach the responsible person at Adobe's but it is necessary to improve this issue even in older versions of Première Pro.

By @toon1540