why not? it works pretty well, never had problems with it. yes a dvd ripper will work, as long as you can make it to compress it in DV which as you know works best with premiere. the only problem is that it will probably take very long... Just to let you know, Premiere Pro 2.0 has been released and is available for download on this site edit: turns out it requires SSE2 so don't waste your time downloading if you don't have it And get that bloody cable! It must exsist otherwise they wouldn't have made an output. edit: I took on the challenge of finding the cable you need. Following the saying that if you can't find something on google, it doesn't exsist... well I didn't find anything The only 5-pin cables I could find were USB. Maybe you're not looking hard enough? My camera has loads of hidden connectors, some of which I found after a year of using it. I mean maybe the connector you are thinking is DV, is in fact just a USB connector?