You can capture audio and video from any DV or HDV device by connecting the device to your computer with a FireWire cable. Adobe Premiere Pro records the audio and video signal to the hard disk and controls the device itself through the FireWire port.

You can capture DV footage from P2 media, and DV or HDV footage from XDCAM media, provided your computer has a supported third-party capture card or device installed, along with their respective drivers.

When you start a new project using one of the DV or HDV project presets, the capture settings are set for DV Capture or HDV Capture, respectively. You can, however, change the capture settings to either DV or HDV from within the Capture panel in an established project.

You can choose whether to preview DV video on the desktop during preview, during capture, or both. These options for HDV desktop preview, however, are supported on Windows only.