Is there a way of capturing video directly from a DVD in Premiere 6.02? It's footage that was originally shot on 8-mm DV video tape and was then transferred to DVD. If I had an 8-mm camera, I could put it in my camera and just capture it via Firewire, but don't. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

Hi ron,

2 ways:

If your camcorder supports analogue pass through, then simply hook up your settop DVD player to the analogue inputs on the camcorder, make sure the menu is to AV>DV and then capture in realtime via premiere (you will have to manually stop and start the recordings/ DVD player).

Search for a DVD ripping program that will convert the DVD into a DV AVI file. try www.videohelp.com/tools for various apps that might do the job.

Search around these forums i'm sure that something will pop up.

Cheers,

Ed

After downloading the .vob files to your hard drive, simply change the extension from .vob to .mpeg and Premiere will ingest them - it will take a while though... it has to decompress them.