Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 56)

51 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Capturing video
Last updated 8/12/2010
Note: If you are using a WDM device, you may need to turn it on by double-clicking its icon in the Windows My
Computer folder. Doing so may open a Windows video preview window. Close this preview window before proceeding.
2 If it is a tape-based device, do one of the following:
• If capturing live from a camcorder, place the camcorder in Camera mode.
• If capturing from videotape, place the device in Play, VTR, or VCR mode.
3 Click Organize > Get Media and select your connected device.
4 In the Capture panel, select Stop Motion.
5 Click Create New Stop Motion. A preview of your live video source appears in the Capture window.
6 To capture from videotape, cue the tape to a point a few seconds before the first frame you want to capture and
pause the device. Use the shuttle controls in the Capture panel if you have device control, or the device’s own
controls if you don’t.
7 (Optional) Select Capture To Timeline from the Capture panel menu if you want each frame added to the Timeline
as it is captured.
8 (Optional) Select Onion Skinning in the lower right of the Capture panel to see onion skins—overlays of previous
frames captured. You can use onion skins to line up figures you animate.
9 Do one of the following:
• To capture from videotape, locate the frames you want to capture using the Play and Pause controls in the Capture
panel or on the device itself.
• To capture from a live video source, point the camera at a subject and record.
10 Click Grab Frame each time the Capture panel displays a frame that you want to capture.
Each frame you grab appears in Project view and is saved to your hard drive as a BMP file with a sequential number in
its filename.
11 Click Close in the upper right of the Capture panel.
12 Save the images by doing one of the following:
• To save the captured images as a single movie file, and as a set of still images, click Yes. Then, give the new movie
a name and location, and click Save.
• To save the captured images only as individual still photos, click No.
Depending on your choice, either the still images, or the still images and movie file, are placed in Project view and the
Organize workspace. Additionally, if you select Capture To Timeline, the still images, but not the movie file, are placed
into the Timeline.
Stop and start a stop-motion capture
If you need to stop work while capturing stop-motion video from videotape, you can continue it at another time, by
matching the first frame of the continuation with the last frame shot in the previous session.
1 Click Organize > Get Media, and select your connected device.
2 In the Tasks panel, click Organize, and then click Project.
3 Drag the last still image captured in the previous session from Project view into the preview area of the Capture
panel.