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Click New Project, select the capture card’s preset (if available) from the Load Preset tab,
and click OK.
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Select an existing project that was set up with the capture card’s preset and click OK.
4
After the project opens, choose Project > Project Settings > General. Click Playback
Settings.
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In the Capture window, carefully check the settings in the Settings panel. If you need to
change the settings, click Edit. The settings in this dialog box are provided by the card
manufacturer’s plug-in software, not by Adobe Premiere Pro, and can vary depending on
the analog capture card’s brand and model. See the documentation for the software driver
provided by the manufacturer of the capture card.
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 (see “Analyzing clip
properties and data rate” on page 89).
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Understanding offline and online editing
Most DV editing is performed online (using full-resolution source files). When working
with analog source material or high-definition digital material, you can use Adobe
Premiere Pro for either online or offline editing depending on the level of quality you
require and the capabilities of your equipment. The settings you specify for analog
capture are dictated by whether you plan to edit the program offline or online.
Note: Offline and online editing workflows are not directly related to online and offline file
terminology as used in Adobe Premiere Pro (see “Using offline files” on page 87).
However,
using offline clips is part of an offline workflow.
About online editing
Online editing
is the practice of editing (including the rough cut) the same clips that are
used to produce the final cut. In the past, online editing was practical only on expensive
workstations. Editors with high-end requirements who could not afford a suitable online
system had to rent time at a production facility that owned one. Online editing is now
practical for a wider range of productions, such as broadcast television, due to the
combination
of more powerful personal-computer hardware, more powerful software (such as
Adobe Premiere Pro), and the rise of DV as a high-quality standard that personal
computers can easily handle.
For online editing, you capture clips once at the level of quality required for the final
version of the video program. This is the default method of working when you use Adobe
Premiere Pro to capture and edit video, particularly DV.
About offline editing
In
offline editing
, you edit video using low-quality clips and produce the final version using
high-quality clips on a system with specialized, high-end hardware. Offline editing was
developed to save money by editing in a less expensive facility, but is less necessary with
the emergence of the DV format because current computers can handle DV-compressed
footage with reasonable performance. However, offline editing can still save time and disk
space on a desktop computer by initially capturing low-resolution clips that preview
quickly; for the final cut, the clips are recaptured at the actual, final resolution.
Offline editing is also useful when the final output, such as high-definition television or
motion-picture film, requires data rates that still challenge the more affordable desktop
computers. For example, you can complete an offline edit with Adobe Premiere Pro and
