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Prepare footage using one of the methods following this procedure.
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Capture or import the file into Adobe Premiere Pro.
Prepare square-pixel files for us in a D1 or DV project using one of the following methods.
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If your final output is DV (NTSC), create and save it at a 720 x 540 frame size to prevent
upsampling, or 640 x 480 to prevent field distortion on a field-rendered file (such as a
3D animation).
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If your final output is DV (PAL), create and save it at a 768 x 576 frame size to prevent
upsampling and field distortion on a field-rendered file (such as a 3D animation).
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If your final output is D1 (NTSC), create and save it at a 720 x 540 frame size.
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If your square-pixel file was created and saved at the frame size used by your project
(such as 720 x 480), but not at the pixel aspect ratio of the project, you’ll want to
redesign your image using a different frame size (such as 720 x 540). This is necessary
when the application you use to prepare the file doesn’t support nonsquare pixels.
File-size limitations
The Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline window can contain up to 24 hours of video; however,
the actual file-size limitation is not determined by Adobe Premiere Pro but rather by your
capture card, operating system, and hard disk. Check your capture card and hard disk
documentation for information on support of large files.
Hard disk formatting greatly affects the ability to handle large source clips. Files on a hard
disk formatted using FAT32 are limited to 4 GB each, or about 18 minutes of DV footage.
Files on a hard disk formatted as NTFS are not limited by the file system, although files will
still be subject to limitations that may be imposed by other components of your
videoediting
system.
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Assembling a Sequence
Using the Monitor window
The Monitor window resembles a conventional edit bay’s video monitors and edit
controller. The left side of the Monitor window, or
Source view
, displays source clips; the
right side, or
Program view
, displays the active sequence. Controls under each view allow
you to control playback and cue the current frame of a source clip or sequence. Other
controls enable you to add clips to a sequence or remove frames from it. Once clips are in
a sequence, you can also edit them in the Timeline window (see “Using the Timeline
window” on page 114).
To fine-tune, or trim, edits in a sequence, you can activate the Trim window from the
Monitor window. The Trim window’s layout is similar to the Monitor window, but the Trim
window is a standalone window with controls that are optimized for precisely adjusting a
cut point between clips in a sequence (see “Using the Trim window” on page 156).
To optimize screen space for certain editing tasks, or to customize the layout to your
working style, you may also switch the Monitor window from its default Dual View, which
displays the Source and Program views side by side, to Single View, which displays either
the Source view or Program view only.
Monitor window showing Source view (left) and Program view (right)
Displaying a clip in Source view
To view and edit master clips listed in the Project window or individual clip instances in a
sequence, open the clips in the Source view (left side) of the Monitor window. Recently
