Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 79)

73 USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS4
Capturing, digitizing, transferring, and importing
Last updated 11/6/2011
• Recording video, audio, or both must be supported by the selected capture device. For example, audio isn’t captured
if the capture device doesn’t capture audio. If settings exist that can’t be captured, batch capturing stops and the
Capture Settings Error dialog box appears.
• The filename of each clip (as specified in the Capture Settings dialog box) must not duplicate the filename of an
existing clip. If necessary, double-click each offline clip to verify that its name is unique. If you select an offline clip
with a duplicate name for batch capturing, Premiere Pro slightly alters the name of that clip when it captures it. In
this way, it avoids overwriting the other file with the same name.
To manage capture errors when the Capture Settings Error dialog box appears, do one of the following:
• To fix the capture settings for any clips in the list, select one or more files in the list and click Edit Settings.
• To omit the clips with invalid capture settings and proceed with the rest of the batch capture, click Skip. Clips you
skip are removed from the list and are not captured.
• To stop batch capturing, click Cancel. No clips are captured.
Import and export batch lists
You can import batch lists in a variety of file formats: tab-delimited text (TXT), comma-separated value (CSV), TAB,
and PBL. When imported, each entry in the text batch list appears as an offline clip in the Project panel. You can also
export offline clips as a CSV batch list so that you can transfer a logged clip list between projects and workstations. To
see the format of a batch list, export it and open the file in a text editor or in a spreadsheet. A batch list text file may
come from sources such as Adobe Premiere 6.5, logging utilities such as Pipeline Autolog, or custom video-production
software that uses a database or spreadsheet program to generate a batch list.
When you import a batch list, the order of fields in the list must be as follows: tape name, In point, Out point, clip
name, and comment. When you export offline clips as a batch list, Premiere Pro orders the fields as follows: tape name,
In point, Out point, clip name, log note, description, scene, and shot/take. Exported field data is exported from the
corresponding columns in the List view of the Project panel.
• To import a batch-list timecode log, open a project and choose Project > Import Batch List. Locate and select the
file, and click Open.
• To export a batch-list timecode log, select the files that you want to log. Then choose Project > Export Batch List.
Specify a filename and location, and click Save.
Work with offline clips
An offline clip is either a clip that has been unlinked from its source file, or a logged clip that you still have to capture.
Offline clips contain information about the source files they represent, and they give you flexibility when actual files
are not available. If an offline clip appears in a Timeline panel, “Media Offline” appears in the Program Monitor and
in the track.
When you log clips from a tape, Premiere Pro automatically creates offline clips containing the exact information
required to capture the clips later. You can also create offline clips manually. Use offline clips in situations such as the
following:
• Clips are logged but not yet captured. Because offline clips behave like captured clips, you can organize the logged
offline clips in the Project panel. You can even lay out sequences with them in a Timeline panel before the offline
clips are captured. When the offline clips are captured (or located, if they are already captured but missing), they
replace the corresponding offline clips.
• You want to capture logged clips using device control or batch capturing. In Premiere Pro, a batch-capture list is a
set of offline clips; selecting specific offline clips sets them up for batch capturing.