Using VAIO tower w/Premiere Pro

[Aanarav Sareen]

Doesn’t Sony provide you with some sort of capture software?

[Andre Gagnon]

[ahill] “There are factory installed video inputs (s and composite) that look nice, but don’t seem to be functional”

S and composite are analog video inputs whereas Premiere captures from digital (DV) tape. You need to make your takes on tape using a digital camera, install an OHCI IEEE 1394 (firewire)capture card and use the Premiere capture feature. The resulting clips may then be imported into Premiere from your HD.

There are also camcorders that will transform analog input into a DV output compatible with Premiere.

Alternatively, special capture cards, made by Matrox and Canopus, may capture directly from analog devices and transform the result into DV clips compatible with Premiere.

Finally there are devices made by Canopus and, I think Dazzle, that will transform analog capture into DV.

[Mitchell Lopez]

I have a Sony RZ. Those analogs ports are for Sony’s “Giga Pockets” to use, or for viewing a VCR or DVD player on your PC. .

I have a DVD player connected to the RCA ports, and can check DVD’s I have made.

They are NOT for capturing from your DV camcorder.

[Ahill]

Thanks for the feedback, I currently have an old dsr-20 that won’t play tapes anymore, but will allow me to convert S to DV so I don’t need a 3rd party card . Just wanted to see if there was a way to pull the signal from the sony one instead of keeping this broken deck on top of my machine.

[Mitchell Lopez]

Actually, I errored in my response. You could download from your camcorder’s analog port (RCA) and view on Giga Pockets. You could just NOT use it a DV input. The analog signal goes to Sony’s proprietary program.

You said it is not functional, but it is. Plug a device into the RCA ports in front or back of the VAIO, Open Giga Pockets, click on the button called CH (for Channel) between the – and +, select the port you plugged in (front/back), and view.