• Adobe Premiere Pro

  UPDATE: I can’t capture video from canon XHA-1 to PremierePro CS3

  Posted by Wendall Woodbury on February 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm

  I’m starting this discussion anew, since I was never able to solve my ‘capturing’ issues (see earlier thread with Mike Velte.)

  The plot has thickened. I still have issues ‘capturing’ video to my Premiere Pro CS3, particularly with the Canon XH A-1 (as previously discussed.) I have tried numerous experiments over the last couple of weeks with limited success. The bottom line is, I cannot capture video properly (like I did in my old Premiere Pro 1.5.)

  Here’s what I’ve done:

  A:: I disabled the AVC compliant DV tape Recorder/Player in Windows and only kept the Canon DV Camcorder #2, per Mike’s suggestion.

  B:: I removed the old ADS firewire card (from 1999), cleaned the terminals and reseated it in a different PCI slot. That seemed to help somewhat, although results were still intermittent. One minute I could capture with both my Canon A-1 AND Canon XL-1, then the next minute I could not, although I did have much better luck with the XL-1. By the way, the Canon XL-1 is listed in the ‘settings’ section, while the A-1 is not. I just set the latter to ‘Canon & standard’, although I have tried them ALL!

  C:: As an experiment, I replaced the firewire card with a new Nexxtech PCI 3+1 port 1394 card from Circuit City. It seemed to improve the capture ability of my Canon XL-1 immediately…or, at least for the first 20 clips, THEN CS3 froze up (the whole darn computer!) I then rebooted and connected the A-1 and attempted to capture a single clip. Within 10 seconds CS3 froze up again. This happened repeatedly and then the last time I tried, CS3 froze up the moment I opened the capture window.

  ***PLEASE NOTE: CS3 is also VERY SLOW to render a project (it takes hours for a few minutes)…could there be a connection? It’s probably a seperate issue.

  At this point, I’m really confused and frustrated with CS3. I suspect the problem lies within the CS3 software, but I’m not sure. Can someone shed some light…I hope?

  Thanks.
  Wendall

  PS Here is my computer system, built in 2004.

  OPERATING SYSTEM:
   Windows XP – DMI Explorer – Bios Version & CPU related info 080009

  MOTHERBOARD:

   Asus – P4P800 Deluxe
   08009 (Asus Utility Ver. 1.12)

  VGA CARD:

   EVGA 7600GT

  CPU:

   Vendor – Intell
   Type – Pent 4
   Speed 3.0 Ghz – 800MHZ – 512 cache

  MEMORY:

   Vendor – Kingston
   Model – KRV 400X64C3AK2/16
   Capacity – 4 GB DDR 400

  HARDDRIVES:

   Vendor – Western Digital
   (2) 160GB Spec. Edition F: drive (1) 80 GB C: drive
   WD 500GB internal drive
   (3) 500 GB external hard drives (Western Digital & Cavalry)
   WD 750 GB ext. drive

  AUDIO CARD:

   Vendor – M-Audio
   Type – PCI Digital Audio Card
   Model – Audiophile 2496

  Filmmaker42

  Wendall Woodbury replied 18 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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