Adobe Premiere CS3 directly capture video content from a ongoing video file?

Can you explain what you're looking to do in more detail?

Or even some detail. I have no idea what the question is.

You can capture from a live feed via FireWire if that is what you mean. You do not need to go to tape first.

Alexander,

You can use a video screen capture utility to do this. Check that the one you choose can Export as DV-AVI. You can also set up a miniDV camera to shoot the screen, while the video is playing. Remember to not be critical of the resulting image. It will not be THAT good.

Google for a capture utility, or look in these forums, as many have been discussed in great detail. A lot of posters here, use them for tutorial creation, so there is a lot of experience. Go back up the forum hierarchy one level, to get all Premiere fora, and do a Search. Try terms like: "screen capture," "Camtasia" [SP?].

Hunt

Alexander,

By this, do you mean, "will the quality suffer?"

If you were to compare a scene filmed to miniDV camera, transfered to the computer via IEEE-1394 as AVI, compared to the same footage, converted to MPG-2, played in WMP and captured to AVI, then yes.

Give us the capture/transfer descriptions, formats used and the workflow, and it would be easier to give you a definitive answer.

Hunt

WHy not just convert the file and cut out the Media Player?