Premiere Pro: Capturing from Camera

I'm unable to capture digital video directly from any camcorder.
Adobe's documentation says I need a firewire connection(?!) for that. That can't be right.
Apple, at least in the iMac, has eschewed firewire connections in favor of thunderbolt.
Longtime software partner Adobe, issues state of the art software that only allows for obsolete hardware??
I'm sure this has been asked before. Can anyone clue me in?
I'm considering attempting a workaround:
HDMI-to-Thunderbolt adapter.
Has anyone tried that?
Any other workarounds?

I may have misunderstood your intentions initially, thought you wanted to record "live" from camera to computer, as one might do in a studio situation. This can be very beneficial when shooting green screen footage for instance. Most camcorders use a LOT of compression when saving to in-camera media, along with weak 4:2:0 color, and by recording the live HDMI output using the Intensity or MXO2 device, allows you to record to a much higher-quality codec with intra-frame recording at high bitrates using 4:2:2 color, for improved keying results.
As others said, copying SD card contents to computer hard drive is typically the best solution for most users these days. The HDMI capture devices I mentioned do not copy "data" as you mentioned, the way that Firewire or USB have worked in the past. Rather, you would PLAY the video in the camcorder, and the video coming out the HDMI port as "uncompressed video" is then captured to the format you specify. The video is being converted to something else, and is not simply a "data transfer".
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

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