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Trouble capturing camcorder videos (8mm & minidv)
Here is my issue (and I’ve sat with a Adobe person on the phone now for 2 hours, and they can’t seem to help me trouble shoot the issue):
It is with Adobe Premier Pro, and trying to capture (import) video (8mm & MiniDV) straight from my camcorders into the software. Basically, as these are typically clients home movies, the tapes tend to jump a bit, or have a natural break in-between the days they shot the video onto the tape. My problem is that each and every time there is a break, Premier Pro automatically stops the import, and breaks it into a small clip to log individually. Awful problem for me because I need the entire tape rolled into, as one file, and need the ability to start the import, walk away from my computer for hours at a time while I attend to other work.
Adobe techs keep telling me it is a problem with my tapes, but I know that this is not true because I am able to fully import these very same tapes into iMovie without a hitch or a break in the importing (however I can not control where I save the initial imports with iMovie i.e. I just import directly onto the external hard drive I provide to my clients – saving me a lot of hours and an extra step of later uploading onto the jump drives)
Please please help! Thanks a million!! 🙂
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Menu > Preferences > Capture > deselect “Abort capture on dropped frames” is really the only setting that comes to mind. I probably wouldn’t record device timecode either.
For others who may take a crack at this, can you describe in detail any of the possible settings/solutions Adobe gave you?
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Thanks for your response! Sadly, I’ve tried every setting under the moon and nothing appears to work…the Adobe tech guy had me do that, along with thinking of re-booting, re-installing etc.
I’m still open to any other suggestions!
Again, appreciate your time and response very much 🙂
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Also, if iMovie works for you then try this: find your iMovie capture folder, delete it and replace it with a symlink that points to your thumb drive. You can look up how to create a symlink on Google but it’s one line in the terminal. It basically creates a shortcut that fools the computer in thinking that it’s the location. It’s commonly used for, say, saving your iTunes library on an external drive.
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