Help with Installing Premier CS4

Question

Pl
ease, some one with experience on Premier CS4 Help Me in setting this program up
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Windows 7
I just installed Creative Suite CS4  in place of CS3.  CS4 Installed fine.
NOW I can NOT edit any clips to Encore and then to burn a DVD. -- OR Export to Tape.
My camera is a Sony HVR-V1U  High Def which shoots at 1080/60i.  My desktop recorder is a Sony GV-HD700.  I put recorded tapes into this and feed into Premier by firewire connection. All HAS worked fine in CS3.  The Capture window accepts the cameras and recorders under Sony Standard, as no listing is given by a specific name.
To make Capture work, I must set the input clips as a DV;,...NOT as a HDV.  No HDV setting will allow me to Capuure footage.  Only DV.
     ?????  How can I Capture HDV????
     ????  Am I missing some 3rd party capture card???  Did NOT need one in CS3.
* To be sure, Please tell me what settings to establish when setting up a NEW edit. or a new project.
*  I can capture the clips into Premier fine & save as a project...But CS4 will not export to Encore
*   After edits and rendering and saving, I attempt to Export to Encore to burn DVD's.  ENCORE does NOT appear in the Export window.  I did locate a link to ENCORE via Dynamic lionk in File of the project.  BUT as ENCORE attempts to accept the project, the horizontal rendering bar stops and effort stops.  There is NOT a saved ENCORE folder or project, as was with CS3 in the compute, where Premier established the Encore file in normal process.  (All Encore project files from CS3 are found in My Docs//Larry//Adobe//Premier//3.)
(Note: I could NOT register and get Adobe help when I purchased this Program because I am involved in environmantal remediation in remote jungles. Just returned to do files and make films of our work.  Adobe refuses to help me as they have for many years as a no cost service upon purchasing a program.)
Please assist me. I am really stuck on this now.
Larry McKenna  e-mail:  [email protected]

Answer 1

Hi Jerry,
You are VERY kind to reply with help.
I do still have CS3 and CS 4 installed on 2 computers. 1 with Win 7 and 1
with XP.  At this moment, I am happ0yt I did not erase CS3 because I have
"cludged" a way to go forward until a fix for CS4 Encore crasing BOTH
computers when engaged to burn a DVD from either Premier CS 3 or CS4.
In fooling around with the software, I have reduced my issues to two:  (1)
Encore CS4 crashes both computers when sending a Premier project to be
converted into a DVD.  (2) It seems that a 3rd party software patch or a
card is necessary to send 1080i into Premier.  Premier at its present
settings will NOT keep input (capture footage) as 1080i (HDV) and allow to
be captured.  Must change Capture settings to DV so footage can be input.
There MUST be a fix for that.
Larry