Digitizing Analog Audio; To Set The Location For Captured Audio; To Record A Voice-Over - Adobe PREMIERE PRO 2 Manual

Turn on both devices.
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If the digital device is a camcorder, put it into VTR or VCR (not Camera) mode.
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Set the input selection control on the digital device to the correct analog input.
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8 Start Adobe Premiere Pro.
When the Welcome screen appears, do one of the following:
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Click New Project, select the capture card's preset (if available) from the Load Preset pane, and click OK.
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Select an existing project that was set up with the capture card's preset.
Select File > Capture.
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11 In the Capture panel, carefully check the settings on the Settings pane. If you need to change them, click Edit.
(The settings in this dialog box are provided by the card manufacturer's plug-in software, not by Adobe Premiere
Pro, and vary according to the analog capture card's brand and model. See the documentation for the software driver
provided by the manufacturer of the capture card.)
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If the digital device offers no device control, cue up your source using the analog device's own controls. Press Play
on the analog device and click the Record button
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If the digital device offers device control, capture or log footage using the Capture panel's controls, as you would
with a digital source.
To help determine the effects of your compression settings on the data rate of the captured video, use the Adobe
Premiere Pro Data Rate graph.

Digitizing analog audio

If you want to use audio that is not yet in digital form (for example, from an analog cassette or a live microphone),
you need to digitize it through an audio or audio/video digitizer/capture card.
The quality of digitized audio and the size of the audio file depend on the sample rate (the number of samples per
second) and bit depth (the number of bits per sample) of the digitized audio. Also, stereo audio requires twice as
much disk space as mono audio. These parameters, controlled in the Capture Settings section of the Project Settings
dialog box, determine how precisely the analog audio signal is represented in digital form. Higher sample rates and
bit depths reproduce sound at higher levels of quality, but with correspondingly larger file sizes. Capture audio at the
highest quality settings your computer can handle, even if those settings are higher than the settings you'll specify
for final export or playback. This provides headroom, or extra data, that helps preserve quality when you adjust audio
gain or apply audio effects such as equalization or dynamic range compression/expansion. Although the DV format
can record two independent stereo audio pairs, Adobe Premiere Pro can capture only one stereo pair. It may be
possible to select either stereo pair 1, stereo pair 2, or a mix of both stereo pairs, depending on the DV hardware you
are using. Consult your DV equipment guide.

To set the location for captured audio

Choose Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks.
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2 For Captured Audio, select a location and click OK.

To record a voice-over

1 Connect the microphone to the mic-level input jack on your computer or sound card. If necessary, choose Edit >
Preferences > Audio Hardware to configure the input device.
in the Capture panel.
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