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Exporting Movies
Recording your movie to videotape
You can record your edited movie onto tape from directly within Adobe Premiere Elements.
If you are recording to a DV camcorder, you can conveniently and precisely control your
camcorder’s record functionality directly from your computer by using device control, which
is built in to Adobe Premiere Elements. If you want to record to an analog medium, such
as a VHS or beta tape, you can record from Adobe Premiere Elements by connecting
your analog source to the computer by using an analog-to-digital converter, also called an
AV DV converter
. In this scenario, you must control the camcorder yourself by manually
enabling record on your analog device, and then playing your movie from Adobe
Premiere Elements.
Exporting to tape
Exporting your movie to tape is a good way to prepare it for easy presentation, as well as a
good way to archive your movies without using hard disk space. Unlike footage burned to
DVD, you can recapture the footage that you store on DV tape, as well as append new
footage to the tape.
To export to tape:
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Connect the DV device (camcorder, deck, or analog-to-digital converter) to your computer
by using an IEEE 1394 connection. If you are using an analog source, connect that
source to the analog-to-digital converter.
2
Turn on the camcorder and set it to VTR (or VCR) mode. If the Digital Video Device
dialog box appears, close it.
3
Start Adobe Premiere Elements and open your project.
To give your recording deck additional time before your video starts and after it ends,
add black frames before and after the movie in the Timeline window. In addition, if you
plan to have a postproduction facility duplicate your videotapes, add a minimum of 30
seconds of color bars and tone at the beginning of your program to aid in video and
audio calibration.
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Make sure that your video recording device is on, that a blank or appendable tape is in
the device, and that the tape’s record protection tab is in a position that allows recording.
If necessary, cue the tape to the location where you want to begin recording. Make sure
that you have sufficient tape, or are recording at an optimal speed, in order to record your
entire movie.
