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Premiere elements won't capature video from tape

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Premiere elements won't capature video from tape

Postby audioeditor » Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:02 pm

I needed another capture station for analog video. I have two stations of Premiere Pro, but needed a third way to capture video while playing it on a deck. I wrote B&H and asked if Premiere Elements had a "Capture" mode and also a way to crop the video while on the timeline. A reader answered a positive yes to both my requirements. I got the software today and am disappointed to find that it doesn't in fact have a "capture" mode for capturing video as it is played back on a deck. I don't know about the cropping yet because I can't "capture" the video playback from the analog deck. I even have a Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle to use with Elements but PE doesn't seem to recognize it either. Premier Pro takes it right in from the shuttle.
Am disappointed in Premiere Elements. It is very, very different from Premiere Pro and I suppose I've wasted my money since it won't capture playback video.

I hope I'm just missing something and you can help see that it will, in fact, capture live video
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Re: Premiere elements won't capature video from tape

Postby Peru » Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:38 pm

Welcome to Muvipix. :meet:

I use these for Firewire capture:
WinDV http://windv.mourek.cz/
HDVSplit https://www.videohelp.com/software/HDVSplit
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Re: Premiere elements won't capature video from tape

Postby Steve Grisetti » Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:48 am

Premiere Elements hasn't captured from tape since version 12, nearly a decade ago. Beyond that, very few computers include a FireWire port for capturing from miniDV and HDV.

You don't say if you're trying to capture a digital format, like HDV or miniDV, or if you're trying to digitize VHS. But in either case your best bet at this point in Diamond VC500, available from Amazon for about $40. This device captures video over a USB connection and the video it captures is editable with any video editor, including Premiere Elements.

I use a similar device and I've created tutorials for using it.
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Re: Premiere elements won't capature video from tape

Postby audioeditor » Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:46 am

What about cropping the picture on all four sides like Premiere Pro does? I was told Elements would do that also, but I can't see any effect controls that would allow that. I like to crop off the head switching noise and the black sides due to incorrect horizontal blanking on VHS tapes. An easy job in PPro and you can even store the preset.
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Re: Premiere elements won't capature video from tape

Postby Chuck Engels » Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:56 pm

Should be the Transform Effect > Crop - Controlled just like in Premiere Pro. After adding the effect to your clip you can right click on the applied effect and select Save Preset. At least that's the way is in version 14, hope things haven't changed much.
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