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CHAPTER 3 94
Preparing and Importing Source Clips
Most of the settings that control how a clip is captured from a camera or a deck are found
in the Capture Settings section of the Project Settings dialog box.
Capture Settings for QuickTime capture. Settings vary depending on the selected
Capture Format. Available capture formats vary depending on the type of
video-capture card installed.
To prepare for capturing video:
1
Specify the scratch disk for captured movies. See “Setting up Premiere’s scratch disks”
on page 71.
Note: The length of a captured clip may be limited by the file size limits of your operating system.
At the time this guide was printed, file sizes were limited to 1 to 2 GB (depending on the video-
capture card) for AVI on Windows and 2 GB for Mac OS.
2
Set up the video source. For QuickTime for Mac OS, choose Project > Settings > Capture,
click Video, choose Source, and choose a video source from the Digitizer menu. For an editing
mode provided with a video-capture card, see the documentation included with the video-
capture card.
3 Carefully check other settings in the Capture panel (summarized below). As noted in the
following list, some capture settings are specific to a particular capture format.
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