Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 84)

78 USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS4
Capturing, digitizing, transferring, and importing
Last updated 11/6/2011
• Feet+Frames 35 mm
• Audio Samples
• Milliseconds
The timecode display format for the Program Monitor (including the instance in the Trim Monitor) and Timeline
panels always match one another. Changing the display format in one of these panels changes it in the other.
Stripe tape or replace timecode
You can ensure continuous timecode by recording timecode onto the tape before you use it. This process is called
striping the tape. Striping is not necessary if you follow recommended shooting practices, but it can protect you from
accidentally breaking timecode by miscuing a tape in your camera.
Stripe a tape with timecode
1 Place an unused tape in the camera. It should have no timecode.
2 If you’re using a camera for striping, attach the lens cap and disable audio recording.
3 Ensure that all camera settings (particularly the audio sample rate) are exactly the same as the settings you will use
when you shoot. Use all these same settings whenever shooting on that tape.
4 Begin recording. Let the camera or deck run until the entire tape has been recorded.
5 Before you record video on a striped tape, play about 30 seconds of it from the beginning. Verify that the camcorder
is reading the timecode you striped before you start shooting. The 30-second empty lead on the tape also helps in
batch capturing.
Check your camera’s settings whenever changing tapes, especially when reinserting a tape you had begun shooting
previously. Though you may want to use different settings for different tapes, it’s best to use the same settings from
beginning to end of each tape. These should match the settings used when first striping that tape.
Replace DV timecode
If your source footage is in DV format and its timecode isn’t continuous, you can replace its timecode by making a DV
copy, or dub, of the tape. The DV device making the copy records new timecode that is continuous, so you can then
log and capture video, with the new timecode, from the copy.
Note: This technique does not work when dubbing to the DVCAM format or using a Panasonic AG-DV2500 as the record deck.
1 Load the tape you shot into a camcorder or deck, and fully rewind it.
2 Load a new tape into a second camcorder or deck, which you will use to record the copy.
3 If the recording device includes an option to record video with the timecode from your original tape, be sure that
this option is disabled. See the operating instructions for the device for information on this option.
4 If the recording device is digital, connect it to the DV source device using a digital cable, such as IEEE 1394 or SDI.
This will make a full-quality copy.
5 Connect the recording device to a television monitor.
6 Set both devices to VTR mode.
7 Make sure that the recording device is set to record from the digital port.
8 Begin recording the new tape and then start your original tape playing. Let the camcorders or decks run until the
entire original tape has been copied.