Adobe Prem Pro CC and Capture options

Any suggestions on this?

I am learning to use Premier Pro CC (trying)

I can import videos from my EOS 5D MKII ok and sort of meddle about with them.

As usual fiddling with it brings up all sorts of options that mean nothing and appear to fall in to the category of lights and bells!

One thing I did notice though was an option from Window > Capture and a popup appears with (more) options and a note saying "Capture device offline"

It looks like you can add/connect an external device (Camera I would think?) Does anyone know anything about this option?

I did a search and the only thing I could find was that you can possibly plug in a TAPE video camera.

Is this the case, or can you Capture a DSLR video out put? I did try plugging the 5D in via a USB but the camera just kept saying BUSY and the Prem Pro just said device offline.

Does anyone have any experience of using this Capture option, does anyone know if it will capture Video from My EOS 5D MKII?

Thanks, McP.

It may be able to but there are much better capture options that wouldn't include Premiere until the edit stage. Premiere is primarily an NLE (non-linear editor). To use the video in Premiere, record on the camera and bring the files in as you have been doing. That's definitely the way to go unless streaming.

It requires a capture video card. Something like this: https://www.blackmagic​design.com/sg/products​/decklink

Then you connect your camera via HDMI or HD-SDI / 6G-SDI and use that capture function in Premiere Pro. It will then record the signal coming in as a flavor of whatever codec you set.

Tl;dr - don't bother. Follow what TDCat says: shoot from camera, transfer files to computer, edit as per normal.