Canopus ADVC300-Is there anyway to use this converter with PE 13?

I recently upgraded to PE 13. It would not recognize the Firewire-connected Canopus ADVC300 as a capture device. A tecchie at Adobe told me that they removed this option (through the DVD Camcorder menu) in Version 13, which only allows WDM captures. I still have PE8, which, I suppose, I could use to input via the Canopus, as long as PE13 will read the project files. Any other suggestions to get PE13 to input the Canopus video converter? The ADVC300 cost me $300!!

In your earlier posts (orig & #3) above you mentioned that you have PE8 & PE10 --still installed-- which do capture via firewire (from the Canopus unit) you essentially already have everything need.  Why mess around with any of the work-arounds offered by Adobe.
I too have PE10 and I have been very successfully using an earlier Canopus unit (ADVC100) for many years.
All you need to do is use the PE10 to capture your analog videos. 
Then you can literally abandon the .prel (and all other PE10 created files.  The only file(s) you need to keep are the .avi files.
Launch PE13 and copy/move/import the .avi files from the PE10 asset folder to the PE13 asset folder.
All of the recommend work-arounds will create .avi files --they too would have to be copied/moved/imported into PE13 the same way.  The .avi files from PE10 are the same as those created by the work-arounds.
It is truly unfortunate that Adobe removed the firewire support in PE13.

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