Hello, I would like to capture the footage of my VHS camera (JVC GR-AX270) with Premiere Pro CC 2017. I use a Video Chinch to Scart adapter and a cheap Scart to HDMI A/D converter from Ebay to connect the camera with my Macbook. I open Premiere Pro CC 2017 and select File > Capture. However, nothing happens and I am not able to capture the footage. Any ideas?
You may need such a specialised converter for capturing VHS videos. This is because many simple adapters either severely degrade video image quality even further (making an already low-rez, 352 x 576 video the effective equivalent of only a 176 x 288 quality output) or do not properly convert the video to a suitable digital format (with tons of errors abound).
And I can see why your attempt with a simple SCART to HDMI adapter failed miserably: The HDMI port on your MacBook is only capable of outputting video, and cannot input video at all (the video data in HDMI can only travel in one direction). In other words, your MacBook (at least by itself) has absolutely no video capture input at all whatsoever.
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