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May well be people on there who are using Premiere 6.5 + DVStorm.

One other question. It appears you can capture via the Canopus DV Capture program. If this works to ingest your DV footage to your PC, does it matter that you can't use either Elements or 6.5 to capture?

I currently use WinDV to capture from miniDV tapes rather than any supplied NLE capture program. Before that, when I used Premiere 5.1, I had a copy of Scenalyzer.