Premiere Capture and SONY HRV M15AU

I can not get Adobe Premiere CS5 to recognize my HRV tapedeck to capture files. I have tried reseting and changing basic edit settings. Definitely feel over my head with this one. Any helpful solutions needed to get the two to talk.
Thanks!

I have a SONY HVR-M15U and it works great with PPRO CS5.02 for capture(export and realtime playback under MPE is another story, I may have to start another thread on that topic). Anyway, make sure that Windows sees your 1394 host controller as well as the deck, look in Device Manager.
Make sure you are using a Firewire 400 6-pin to 4-pin cable(without converters or adapters) like the one that comes with the deck. Also be sure to use a port directly on the host controller(backplane of computer) and not a front panel convenience port. If you don't see an IEEE 1394 Bus entry in Device Manager, try powering down & reseating the card in the slot.
This VTR should be PnP. With the VTR off, connect the firewire cable between the two devices. Turn on the VTR and if all your connections are good, you should see the SONY DV entry in the DevMan and get an AutoPlay notice for a Digital Video Device.
Premiere doesn't have a specific device setting for this VTR, but I use the device control settings of NTSC/SONY/DSR-11/Auto. I think with an AU model you'll probably want to use PAL, but the rest should work for you.

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Welcome to the forum Jean-Claude.
If you will provide your system specs, I'll bet that
someone here will get you running smoothly and
happily.
Sorry for that...
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FCP5
Mac OSX
2 HD (one external via firewire)
G4 on PowerBook with 512M RAM
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only one thread active... keeps everyone from getting
confused...
Sorry for that too... I am going to close the other one right now...
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CS5 User Guides - online and PDF (see link in upper right corner at individual pages)
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Message du 03/06/09 16:08
De : "Jim Simon"
A : "JONES Peter"
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Objet : Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder running slow
For AVCHD you MUST have FAST disks.
AVCHD actually has a lower data date than DV. You need lots of CPU muscle, but disk speed is really not a factor specific to AVCHD. Anything that works for DV will work just as well for AVCHD (and HDV as well).
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