New to Premiere Pro, refuses to import DV footage from Vixia HV30

[richardsullivan]

"Wrong Input Format, Try Changing Camera Format or Capture Settings."

iMovie has no problem importing footage from this camera on my MacBook Pro. Does anyone have a solution? Much appreciated.

[Jim_Simon]

First thing that comes to mind is you'll need to connect the camera to a Firewire port on the edit system, which you likely don't have.  Going through adapters often doesn't work.

[richardsullivan]

Thanks for your response. My MacBook Pro doesn't have firewire - it has thunderbolt and the videocam is connected to that. As an aside, iMovie is free and has no problem importing footage; Premiere costs a fortune and wants us to jump thru hoops for something so absolutely basic.

[Jim_Simon]

FireWire ports were a LOT more common back when people were using tape-based cameras.  No one does any more, so the port just kind of disappeared.

[Meg The Dog · Accepted solution]

In your project, go to File > Project Settings > General and see what format of video Premiere is expecting to find on the connected device:

If this is not the format of video you shot on your camera, then change it.

If it is the format of video you shot on your camera, then make sure your camera is not down-converting the video (Down-converting HDV to DV, for example) at the firewire (iLink) port. There is an internal menu setting in the camera to turn this downconversion on or off.

If Premiere is expecting an HDV tape, and the camera is set up to down covert to DV, then Premiere will see an incorrect source.

MtD

[richardsullivan]

Thank you!!

[Juan Muratalla]

Mine only shows HDV, my camcorder is old DV camera, Quicktimes and iMovie detect it but not Premier, I have acutally tried them and they work except that they have a problem with time drops and it creates a whole bunch of little clips and Quciktime has a lipsync issue.

[Ann Bens]

Premiere needs firewire to capture from the hv30.

I recently capture hdv with a hv20 and had no issues: Premiere 2018 on W10.

[richardsullivan]

Thanks!!

[videethis_as_well]

For some reason I can only choose HDV. I'm using build 14.1.0

Any help would be much appreciated. 

[Ann Bens]

You are most likely on catalina. Feature has been removed.

[rorydcs]

So is it now impossible to conver on catalina?

[Ann Bens]

That is correct.

Only way to fix this is revert to previous OS.