Capturing input video from a DV camera

I found that my old Sony HC90 DV camera makes a good video to Digital converter so I can make DVDs of my old family VHS tapes made over 15 years ago on a video only camera.
I set it up using firewire so that the VCR video is visible on the camera viewfinder and therefore also on the capture preview window of PE9.
As soon as I select Capture, the tape starts playing and cuts out the input VCR video.
If  I stop the tape playing on the camera, the PE9 capture also stops.
This means I cant capture any input video without the transport rolling.
If I record it all on camera tape I can replay this and capture it OK but everything will then take twice as long to do
Is there any way I can use the PE capture feature without it starting the tape transport as well so I can capture direct from VCR to Computer?
Alternately is there any other (hopefully free) capture program that doesnt also control the camera transport so I can just capture the video?

Thank you!
I think I will give it a try. I found a web page that seems to be the owners:  http://paul.glagla.free.fr/captureflux_en.htm  does that look like the correct page to you? His latest version is 6.0, and looks like it was done in 2008. Do you know of a more recent version?
I'm also trying to find a fire wire card for my computer (Dell XPS 8300)
I don't understand why they wouldn't include the firewire card, considering this is a great computer for video editing. I guess most people are using their computers for gaming and streaming and watching DVDs, not making them.
I have been able to import using PE10, but it seems a little glitchy.
I'm also going to try an updated version of the motionDV studio that came with my Panasonic.
Thanks again--
--Linda

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