Import family VCR tapes to Premiere Pro

[Tom J]

Hi there,
Just a quick suggestion. Have you considered a Canopus converter? I’ve been using the original ADVC100 for quite some time now and I love it. There is now the ADVC110 which is pretty much the same unit (same great hardware & codec) just a different box basically.

Anyway Canopus is now owned by Thomson/Grassvalley, here are the specs:

https://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC110/index.php

You should have no problem at all using this unit to bring footage AND audio into Premiere Pro.

Hope that helps,
Tom

[Blast1]

[bearprod] “I have my VCR machine connect to my Intel Dual-core XP Pro machine via a “video capture card”

What is your video capture card? And what format are you capturing to?

[Darren Edwards]

If the capture card doesn’t have firewire but your PC does,
why not invest in a cheapy VCR player which has firewire out,
and plug that into PPro?

PPro will merrily capture the video material although the
capture window won’t let you ‘control’ the VCR player – you’ll
have to do all the operational stuff like rewinding and
fast-forwarding on the VCR deck.

Darren.

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[Mike Cohen]

when I do such projects once a year or so, I first manually dub the highlights of each VCR tape to a mini DV tape. Once I have a full 63 minutes on DV, I capture that via my DV camera. That way I have backed up my video to a format which is a bit more robust than VHS, and I can work on the project in Premiere, delete the raw footage and batch digitize at a later date when my schedule permits.