The patch for Premier Pro from 1.5 to 1.5.1 does this as I recall. HDV footage does not play in the capture window while running. I used to get the following message displayed when capturing "See camcorder display for preview" so as far as PPro is concerned you should be watching the monitor on the camcorder.

I can't vouch just yet as to whether this is the same in PPro2 as I've not done any captures in it yet.

As to why your camcorder is not displaying your footage on the monitor while it's playing is a bit of a mystery. Does it always do this or just when connected via firewire? Check the documentation that came with the camere and see fi there's an option to control this.

What camera is it btw? I have a Sony HDR-FX1E and that previews playback on the camcorder's minitor during capture ok.

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