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In part one (Find it here) of our Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 for Brand Noobs, we learned about how important it is to have two monitors when editing video, and now it's time to get out that DV camcorder and start capturing some video. Follow along with me, and don't fret, this is going to be easy. We're working in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, remember? No more of those crappy consumer-level editing applications for you. You're ready to run with the big dogs now. But not to worry, this is the pro-level editing app for the rest of us. C'mon, it'll be fun.
Connect your DV camcorder to your computer using the appropriate 1394 cable as we discussed in Part 1, and as soon as you flip the power switch on the camcorder you'll see a dialog box open on your computer asking you what you would like to do, and if you would like to capture video using Premiere Pro 2.0. Yes, you would like that. Click OK, and you're ready to go.
After Premiere Pro launches, you'll be presented with a dialog box asking you if you'd like to start a project. For editing standard DV, simply select DV NTSC, Standard 48 kHz. It will prompt you to name your project, so go ahead and think of any name you'd like for your project, type it into that project name field, and you're good to go.
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| Here's the window where you designate the format of your new project. |
If you're already in Premiere Pro and want to capture some video, it's the easiest thing in the world to just hit the F5 key (or you can make things more complicated and go to File/Capture), and up pops the Capture Window (see graphic below). Here's where the fun starts. It's time to grab some of that footage that you have on that tape and put it onto your PC. There are four ways to do this, and I'll describe to you how each one has done.
1. Manual Capture
2. Capturing From an In and Out Point
3. Capturing the Entire Tape
4. Logging/Batch Capturing
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| Press F5 on your keyboard and it opens the Capture Window |
Before you start, it's a good idea to enter a tape name. Look on the right side of the capture window and you'll see a field where you can enter that tape name. You can also enter a description for each shot if you want to, and other information, but for the purposes of this exercise, just enter the tape name. We'll have chances to enter each shot name later.
Manual Capture
To manually capture your footage, click on the Play arrow (it looks just like the play arrow on a DVD player or VCR) at the bottom of the capture window, and you'll see your video playing in the window. When you see the shot you would like to grab, push the Record button (the circular button with the red dot in the middle). As soon as the part of the shot you would like captured is done, click the red button again, or click the square button for stop. A dialog box will open, asking you to name that clip. Type in something that describes the shot in a few words. You've manually captured your first shot. You'll see that shot you've captured in the Project Window, located on the top left. There it sits, with that name that you just gave it. Neat.
Speaking of the project window, if you're following my recommendations from Part 1 and are using two monitors, now a be a good time to drag the whole project window over into the right monitor. If you're able to do that, you can have an entire monitor that holds all of your clips, and then you can look at them as if they were sitting on the light box wait for you to choose which one you'd like to use next.
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| Click and hold on the little handle on the project window -- it's the highlit area in this graphic that looks like little dots -- and then drag it over to the right screen, and then expanded out to give yourself plenty of elbow room for those beautiful clips with which are about to fill it. |
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| Once you drag that Project Window over to the right monitor, notice the small arrow that points to the right on the top right of the window. Click on that and in the drop-down menu, select View, and then click on Icon. After that, select Thumbnails, and then either Medium or Large, and you'll better be able to see your clips right there in the project window, plain as day. |
Now go back to the capture window and try shuttling around the tape, finding the shots you want, and then capture each one. Again, the tape transport controls at the bottom of the capture window are just like those of the VCR or DVD player. Plus, you can shuttle around with the little slider underneath those transport controls, and the object that looks like a thumbwheel at the bottom lets you finely jog around smaller parts of the clip. Experiment with these transport controls, and become familiar with them because you'll be using them a lot throughout Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0.
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