Premiere Elements 7 - capture from Canon Legria HFS100

[elindsay]

I have downloaded everything from the disks provided with my Canon Legria camcorder. I also checked the Canon website to make sure there were no new drivers. There is nothing. However, I tried connecting my camera to my computer via USB and Premiere Elements 7 indicated the device was offline.
I cannot see any port on the camcorder to take a firewire.
I would like to download via the camcorder so that the clips are loaded straight in to the timeline. I have otherwise been going through the laborious process of capturing via my cardreader and downloading individual clips in to the timeline.

Can anyone help?

Kind Regards

Erika

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Erika, What you are doing is the only way. Premiere Elements doesn't capture from a USB device.
So you have been doing it the right way, and the only way, all along

[Paul LS]

The Canon HFS100 is an AVCHD camcorder so you should be able to capture using the Harddrive camcorder preset. However I have heard of a few folks having trouble capturing directly into Premiere Elements with Canon AVCHD camcorders. I have a Sony AVCHD camcorder and always capture the videos using Sony's "Motion Picture Browser" software that came with the camcorder and then import manually into Premiere Elements. I like to catalog the videos in the Sony software library.

[elindsay]

Thanks to you both for your help. Excuse an ignorant question. Pixel image mixer came with my camcorder. I can't edit using this software. However, should I be using this to capture from my camcorder? Would PE7 upload from Pixel Image mixer? Otherwise- sorry Steve to mention other software, is there an editing package that could capture from a Canon Legria? Many thanks Kind Regards Erika

[Paul LS]

Pixela ImagerMixer is used for importing the video files onto your computer, managing/organizing them and playing them. To import them into Premiere Elements you would use the "Import from Folder" function. You select all the video files on your computer that you want to import. Then you can import them all in one go.

Most editing programs should be able to import directly from the camcorder. Whether they actually can is another question.

[rusty]

I use Pixela Imagemaker to capture from my Canon HF10. It works great. I then rename and organize the AVCHD files in folders as I want them, and import them via Get Media/Files and Folders when I want them for a project. It works great.

[elindsay]

Many thanks to you all for your help. It's so much appreciated. Kind Regards Erika

[elindsay]

I've used Pixela now. I created a new list and captured my video. I cannot see exactly how to save them to my computer. They have sort of ended up under my videos. I've read the manual and put the correct settings in but am still confused. If I down load from Pixela to Premiere elements, I suppose I will still have to manually insert each clip in to the timeline?

Kind Regards

Erika