Capturing
Footage
Movie
- This window includes a preview window, which displays your
currently recording video, controls for recording with and without
device control, a Settings panel for viewing and editing your current
capture settings, and a logging panel for entering batch capture
settings. You can log clips for batch capture only when using device
control. You can set the preview area to the Fit in Window mode
so that the video always fills the preview area.
Note:
When performing anything other than capturing in Premiere, close
the Movie Capture Window. Because the Movie Capture window assumes
primary focus when open, leaving it open while editing or previewing
video disables output to the DV device and may decrease performance.
Batch
- If you have the proper setup for device control and have a
videotape recorded with timecode, you can set up Premiere for automatic,
unattended capture of multiple clips from the same tape. This is
called batch capturing. You log, or create a list of, the segments
you want to capture from the tape in the Batch Capture window. The
list (called a batch list or timecode log) can be created either
by logging clips visually using device control or by typing In and
Out points manually. When the batch list is ready, click one button
to capture the clips in the list. You can batch-capture clips from
analog or DV camcorders or decks.
Note:
Batch capture is not recommended for the first and last 30 seconds
of your tape because of possible timecode and seeking issues. Instead,
capture these sections manually.
Stop
Motion - Use the Stop Motion feature to perform manual and time-lapse
single-frame video captures from a connected camera or from a videotape
in a deck or camcorder. For example, you can point a camera at an
unfinished building and use the time-lapse feature to capture frames
periodically as the building is completed. You can use the stop-motion
feature with a camera to create clay animations or to capture a
single frame and save it as a still image. In Premiere, stop motion
does not require device control. You can capture stop-motion animation
from analog or DV sources.
Importing
Footage
Adobe
Photoshop 6.0 Supports the following file formats:
Video
formats: Type 2 AVI, MOV, and Open DML (Windows only)
Note:
Type 1 AVI clips must be rendered before they can be previewed from
your DV device. To render a Type 1 AVI clip, add it to the Timeline
in a DV project, and build a preview file of that section of the
Timeline.
Audio
formats: AVI, MOV, AIFF, WAV (Windows only), the Macintosh Sound
Format, (Mac OS only), and Sound Designer I & II (Mac OS only)
Still-image
and sequence formats: AI and AI sequence, PSD and PSD sequence,
GIF and animated GIF, Filmstrip, JPEG, PICT and PICT sequence, TGA
and TGA sequence, TIFF and TIFF sequence, PCX (Windows only), FLC/FLI
(Windows only), BMP and BMP sequence (Windows only), and PICS animations
(Mac OS only)
