I posted this in the Premiere forums, but no response. Since the question deals with Premiere CS3 on the Mac, I thought maybe another Mac user has run into this.

I can capture via firewire in both iMovie and Avid MC, but to no avail with Premiere! I'm determined it's not my firewire bus, since it works for other programs. Premiere is also able to control my deck (an HV20) fine and display timecode, but will not show signal or capture even a frame! I've been either switching over to Windows XP via bootcamp and capturing on Premiere there, or capturing via Decklink's HDMI and using firewire as merely the deck control (which has still proven faulty).

My question, then, is why is Premiere CS3 not displaying or capturing my footage via firewire? I'm on OS X 10.5.7 and a quad-core Intel Mac Pro.

Thanks,
Mike Browning
Vision Quest Media

(PS, if you're going to reply to tell me Premiere sucks and just to use FCP, save yourself the effort. That's not part of my question.)

(PS, if you're going to reply to tell me Premiere sucks and just to use FCP, save yourself the effort. That's not part of my question.)

You might expect that kind of sophomoric response from other forums but that kind of nonsense isn't tolerated here and doubtful anyone would be bold enough to try it.

Unfortunately I don't have any helpful response other than to say that I'm surprised the PP category didn't have an answer for you. Have you tried looking up the problem on Adobe's own support forums or making a tech-support call to Adobe? My guess is there is a preference somewhere inside PP that tells it how to communicate and therein might lie the problem.

It seems that CS3 will not preview HDV footage, but the preview pane in the Capture panel will show the words "Previewing On Camera", or remain blank:

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 (http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/3.0/help.html?content=WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7fb0.html)

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 (http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/3.0/help.html?content=WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7fb0.html)

Don't know why it's not actually capturing, though.

Yes, well I forgot to mention, I don't get that "previewing on camera" message nor do I get a desktop preview with DV footage.

I can't find an answer on Adobe's forums and knowledgebase, but I'll try giving them a call.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.