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If you can’t load your video from your camcorder/deck to your computer you ought to describe the cam, video devices, computer, and how you are trying to load the video.

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[pablo] “The specs for the dell say its image aspect is 16:1, is this the same as pixel aspect?”
The pixel layout is 16:10 not 16:1, 1920/16=120×10=1200(1920X1200), the pixels are square, same as a regular monitor

[pablo] “I was just wondering how these monitors go in relation to pixel aspect ratio. For instance in After effects, working on a normal monitor you can select pixel aspect ratio correction, which gives you a correctly stretched wide comp when working on a wide screen project.”

If doing DV the resolution is 720×480, pixel aspect .89 x 1, if doing a DV wide screen project the DV resolution is still 720×480, but the pixel aspect is changed to 1.2 x 1(stretched), viewing a video project on a computer monitor is good for composition but a widescreen project should be viewed on a wide screen analog video monitor for final check, also then you might not see any jaggies.

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Just to add a bit of information, the Convert program is located in the System32 folder, here is a MS knowledgebase article on using Convert: https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314097

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Try the https://www.videohelp.com/ site and search for DVD to AVI, you will get all kinds of Info

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If you are capturing to the “digital device format(DV-AVI)” you should have no problem using the file in PremierePro, I recently showed some educators how to capture and trim in various NLEs and had a 1 hour TV-in-the-classroom DV-AVI file captuered in MM2 and used it in Ppro, AvidFreeDV, MSP7 and Vegas with no problems, I suspect that your files maybe corrupted somehow, are you using the NTFS file system? what are your computer specs?

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There is no file limitation except for the OS on type1 video, these labels have been mucked up on the internet again, VFW(video for windows) known as AVI1 has a file limitation of 2gig , AVI2(direct show)has two types; type1 which is Audio/Video interleaved, type2 which has the streams separated, the DV on a camcorder’s tape is basically type1, NLEs based on VFW like Premiere split the audio/video when capturing and Mux it to return it to tape, NLEs like Ulead’s MediaStudioPro use Type1 basically just adding a wrapper to the captured video. Putting type1 into premiere just requires some rendering to be able to use it.

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[Adam] “Capture is capture… I find they both yield the same results.”

Not necessarily so, What version of MM and what settings are you capturing to?

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If you haven’t had experience with either, you will find the learning curve is close for both, Stick with the platform you are familar with you will be better off in the long run.

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If you are using Premiere why aren’t you using Premiere’s capture?

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[mike velte] “Many folks have used ProCoder from Canopus”

Like Mike says Procoder is a good way to go, only you want “Procoder Express”, its about 50/60 euro, the regular Procoder is much more expensive.