capture. You can change the display quality setting for Monitor window playback in the
Monitor window menu.
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If the video image does not appear in the Capture window, verify your device control
and capture settings. To adjust device control settings from the Capture window, click
the Settings tab; then click Options in the Device Control section. In the Device Control
Options dialog box, make sure that the Check Status option is set to Online. If it is not
set to Online, make sure that the options are set correctly, that your device is on and set
correctly, and that your IEEE 1394 connections are secure. To ensure that Adobe
Premiere Pro can see the device, quit Adobe Premiere Pro, leaving the device on, and
then restart Adobe Premiere Pro. Then open the Capture window, click the Play
button , and click within the capture preview area.
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If captured audio and video are not in sync, make sure that sections of tape weren’t
skipped (completely unrecorded) between shots. Blank tape areas lack timecode,
which may cause interruptions in the camera time mode. When you capture the blank
area, the camera doesn’t transmit valid frames, but time continues to be marked. To
ensure proper timecode recording, see “Recording continuous timecode as you shoot”
on page 90.
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Adobe Premiere Pro Help Capturing and Importing Source Clips
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Preparing for analog capture
When you use an analog capture card, some capture settings you see within Adobe
Premiere Pro are actually provided to Adobe Premiere Pro by the plug-in software that
came with the capture card. Due to the differences among brands of capture cards,
specific options and supported formats can vary. This complex relationship between
video-capture cards and Adobe Premiere Pro can make it difficult to identify which part of
the system is responsible for a particular option or problem. Adobe, as well as most
capture card manufacturers, provides troubleshooting documents online that can help
you determine whether an option or problem you are working on is related to the
videocapture
card and its software or Adobe Premiere Pro. Check the Adobe Premiere Pro Web
site (www.adobe.com/products/premierepro) and the capture card manufacturer’s Web
site for links to troubleshooting resources. Use these online resources as well as
techniques such as process of elimination to determine whether the problem is with the
capture card or Adobe Premiere Pro.
Most of the supported capture cards install a settings file (preset) that you can select in the
Adobe Premiere Pro New Project dialog box, under the Load Preset tab. This preset
automatically sets all capture settings for optimal support with your capture card. If your
capture card provides a preset, Adobe recommends that you select it for projects in which
you capture clips or import captured clips and that you do not change the capture
settings in the Settings dialog box.
To prepare for capturing analog video:
1
Specify the disk locations for captured video and audio files. See “Using scratch disks”
on page 57.
Note: The length of a captured clip may be limited by the file-size limits of your operating
system (see “File-size limitations” on page 102).
2
Set up the video source. For an editing mode provided with a video-capture card, see
the documentation included with the video-capture card.
3
Start Adobe Premiere Pro. When the Welcome to Adobe Premiere Pro dialog box
appears, do one of the following:
