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dvcpro tape capture
I capture video footage off of a Sony DSR-11 DVCAM deck. I’ve always used either DVCAM tapes or mini-DV tapes. However, a client gave me a DVCPro tape to capture from. The tape plays on the deck, since I can see it in my external monitor, but it’s not playing through the capture window of Premiere Pro. I tested my Sony DVCAM tapes and they are capturing fine. Is there a setting in Premiere Pro I should know about in order to capture from a DVCPro tape?
Thanks,
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If I am not mistaken, Premiere Pro does not support capture from a DVCPro tape.
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You have got to be kidding! Why?! How will I get this footage into the editing program? All this stuff is already logged on paper with the timecode, so it’s not like I can just dub it onto DVCAM tapes.
miss2z
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That’s PPro. It doesn’t support any of the DVCPro50/HD format. If you are considering a uncompressed capture card for DVCPro, then be sure to check it out before buying it. Make sure it does what you expect it to do with PPro.
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[miss2z] “You have got to be kidding! Why?! How will I get this footage into the editing program?”
Problem is DVCpro is a proprietary format and Premiere has to licence it from competitors.
You will have to get a DVCpro codec to use the footage in Ppro, Raylight will do DVCpro50 and DVCproHD in Premiere, I don’t know if it will do DVCpro25 though, there are other DVCpro25 codecs on the web.
Also I don’t think DVCpro25 will playback in a DSR-11 over firewire correctly. -
I read that PPro 2.0 can take in DVCPro footage.
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[miss2z] “I read that PPro 2.0 can take in DVCPro footage”
This pdf lists formats for Ppro 2, note interface, hardware, and codec requirements for certain formats.
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/pdfs/premiere_pro_formatguide.pdfhttps://www.mainconcept.com also has DVCpro codecs
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thank you. that was quite helpful.
miss2z
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