Preparing For Video Capture - Adobe PREMIERE 5 User Manual

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When you digitize video for offline editing, you specify settings that emphasize editing
speed over picture quality. In most cases you need only enough quality to identify the correct
beginning and ending frames for each scene. See "Preparing for video capture" on page 93
and "Creating a batch list to redigitize project clips" on page 104.
Because you will be generating an EDL from your edits, be sure all clips are captured with
frame-accurate timecode that corresponds exactly to the timecode of the high-quality source
video that you will use for the final online edit. If you plan to edit offline using VHS dubs
(copies) of the source clips, be sure that in each dub you burn in the timecode—make the
timecode visible in a window in the picture. These steps ensure that the EDL you generate
is usable when transferred to the online system or edit bay and that your edits will be frame-
accurate. See "Reading timecode from source video" on page 105.
Offline editing techniques can be useful even if your computer can handle editing at the
quality of your final cut. By batch-capturing video using low-quality settings, you can edit
the faster, using smaller files. When you're ready to create the final cut, you can redigitize the
video at the final quality settings. See "Preparing for video capture" on page 93 and
"Creating a batch list to redigitize project clips" on page 104.

Preparing for video capture

Premiere is sold with many video-capture cards, which usually include non-Premiere
software written by the card manufacturer to control the specific card type. Most video-
capture card software is written so that its controls appear within Premiere for your conve-
nience, even though much of the actual video processing happens in the card, outside of
Premiere. This complex relationship between video-capture cards and Premiere can make it
difficult to identify which part of the system is responsible for a particular option or
problem. For more information on how video processing is divided between the video-
capture card and other parts of your system, see "General problems when capturing video"
on page 365. If an option or problem you are working on is traced to your video-capture
card or its software, see the documentation provided by the manufacturer of your video-
capture card.