----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gabriel Selmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 5:42 AM > Subject: Project Batch capture >
> I read your reply on saving an Adobe 1.5 projecy file > and being able to do batch capture after achiving. > Could you possibly give me more details on this or > references that I may look at? Thanks. Good morning Gabriel, I can try to describe it the best I can. I'm also going to cc to the AP forum, since many others may have similar questions... Your project file contains all of the data of the video clip that was captured from your DV camera. Including tape name, start point, end point, duration, etc. Let's say, to save space, you delete all of the video clips on your hard drive. But you save the project file. A year from now, when you open the project file--which is quite small--it will ask you "what happened to the video clips? I can't find them." These clips are now "offline", because the media no longer exists on your hard drive. In the project window, you can select all of the offline clips (they display with an offline icon next to their names), and you can choose File > Batch Capture. Premiere Pro will then ask you to put in the tape, and it will automatically rewind/fast forward the tape to the correct spot and re-capture the exact clip. (DV capture via firewire is "frame accurate"--meaning your video is a 100% exact duplicate of the original, down to 1/30th of a second!) So now you have all of your "original" clips again. The other swell thing is that Premiere Pro still has all of your sequences the way you left them a year ago. When the clips are offline, Premiere Pro uses "placeholders" in the sequences. When the clips become "online" (recaptured), Premiere Pro reassembles the sequence, and your timeline is faithfully recreated, the exact way you left it. All of this requires two important items: 1. the tape must have continual time code. If there are timecode breaks, this will not work. Here's why: Everytime there's a break in the timecode, your camera starts the timecode back at 00;00;00;00. So let's say premiere pro knows your clip starts at 00;00;03;11. Well, the problem is-- you may have 4 or 5 of that timecode "signature", so premiere pro won't know which one is the real one to use. Timecode breaks usually occur when you are shooting video, and you stop the camera to watch what you just recorded, and when you stop playback to shoot some more, sometimes you stop on a "blank" area of the tape that has no video layed down yet. The trick to prevent this is to always record 5 seconds of excess after every take. Then, if you must preview, when you do, always always always make sure you back the tape up a bit, and "end" on a part that has timecode. Your camera will pick up where it left off, so to speak, and the timecode will stay continuous. 2. If the clips came from different tapes, you must make sure that you labeled them uniquely at the time of capturing. Here's why: Premiere Pro can read all the timecode info, but it can't distinguish tape A from tape B. (There's not unique tape indentifier to DV tapes.) So Premiere Pro says, "Listen-- I can find the clip for you, but you got to put in the right tape." Well, if you didn't give them unique names, how will you yourself know which tape is which? I hope this long winded answer helps. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/ADr1lB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
