I got it working, guys!! I had a firewire 800 adapter on my mac tower, which I guess I used to ingest from a capture card when I ingest cards. I plugged my deck in there – Premiere sees it, and I’m now capturing smoothly!

Don’t know if that adapter would work on my new iMac, but don’t want to tie up the iMac since this is the box I mostly live on,…

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Thanks. I heard about an app called LifeFlix which is good for this job. It’s $99, seems a bit overpriced. Need to figure a way to see if my setup can just basically “see” my DVR. Then can play around with different ways to ingest. Think that means experimenting with different adapters…firewire 400 to 800 to thunderbolt 2…to tb 3… So going…

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Thank you everyone! Here is a photo of the back of my deck., in case that sparks any other suggestions.

I also have a mac tower and a macbook pro. Maybe I have a firewire 800 adapter into the tower, have to check. If so, I would need a mini-dv out to a firewire 800, or to 400 then to an 800 to get in? That’s a lot of adapters!

Way too much footage…

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And I have a 2020 iMac, so where do I install whatever card I need. Thx again.

Thanks, Steve. Any recommendations? What specifically do I need to get. For sure that sounds like the way to go.

I have a bunch of old mini-DV tapes from a project 15 or 20 years old. Trying to figure out how to ingest into Premiere Pro. Have a deck, have a cable that’s firewire on one end, USB on the other. It’s plugged in, I go to Capture in PP, and it doesn’t see my deck.

What am I missing?

Some kind of capture card? What do I need to get in order to get…

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