Had an opportunity last week to dust off some MiniDV tapes of old to use for a project. I was fearful after reading many posts such as yours over the last few years, sure that Firewire tape ingest was deprecated so much in Premiere that it just wouldn’t be possible. Lo and behold, I pulled out our cheap old JVC camera which we had kept after selling off all of our decks, plugged it in and started ingesting like the old days! Premiere saw the camera and had full controlled of it.
Now, we’re Windows based, and I’ve noticed that many of the Firewire connectivity issues I’ve read about were on Mac’s, so….
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions