So first of all making sure the clip is still selected in to DVR, you need to eject it. So come over to the left to the Eject button and click. So to quit OnLocation hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and hit the letter Q and then go ahead and launch Premiere Pro, if you don't have it launched already. I am going to show you how to bring the clips that you record in OnLocation into Premiere Pro, but first we have to create a new project. Here in the Premiere Pro welcome screen go ahead and click the New Project button.
The first thing you need to tell Premiere Pro is what format are you editing in. Now you can cut multiple different formats together in Premiere Pro, but you have to be thinking what your output format is going to be here. Now in our case for this training series we will be working with media in the DV-NTSC format and the clip from OnLocation that I am going to have you import now is also in the same format. So you want to make sure you have selected here in your Presets menu the Standard 48 kilohertz preset for DV-NTSC.
This simply means that this is a standard 4:3 aspect ratio and the audio is at the 48 kilohertz sampling rate. There is generally no reason to use 32 kilohertz in almost every instance you will want to use a preset with 48. Now of course for your own projects you will want to select the appropriate format for whatever you are working with. So it might be DV in PAL, it might be HDV, it might even be Mobile & Device formats or maybe its 24p and if you are using a video card that enables you to edit on compressed high definition, you will also see the presets for your particular video card here in this dialog.
So make sure you have once again your Standard 48 kilohertz DV-NTSC project preset and now let's set a destination to save our project. So come down to the bottom right of this dialog and click on the Browse button and let's navigate to the Desktop>Project Files>Chapter 01, let's save this in our Lessons in Progress folder and then click OK. Now let's give our file a name. Come down to the Name field and click and let's type in Capture Project.
Go ahead and click OK and now we have got a new project in Premiere Pro. So first I want to show you where the ejected clips are that you eject from OnLocation. Go ahead and bring up an explorer window and navigate again to your Project Files to Chapter 01. Then double-click on your Lessons in Progress folder and you will see the Project folder that we save in OnLocation called First Project. Go ahead and double-click that and now you will see three different items, first of all the OnLocation project file, the Clips in Use folder and this has any of the clips in the DVR that you have not ejected, and finally the Ejected Clips folder. Go ahead and double-click this.
So there is the clip that we just ejected from the DVR. Now if you captured your own clip and you have an ejected clip, simply drag-and-drop it from this window into the Project panel in Premiere Pro and that's the panel in the upper left corner, and now the clip has been added to the project.
Now if you did not capture your own clip, you can use the one that we have provided for you. So let's go back in the navigation until we are in the Lesson 01 folder and let's take the Test Shot clip and then drag and drop that into the Premiere Pro Project panel. Great. Now click anywhere inside the Premiere Pro interface and you can double-click either one of these clips to load it into the Source Monitor and then hit the Spacebar on your keyboard to play it back. And when you are done, simply hit the Spacebar to stop playback.
Now let's go to the File menu and save our project. Now, of course, the footage you use in your Premiere Pro edits maybe coming from a number of different sources and it's quite likely you already have the footage you shot on tape that you want to capture and edit in Premiere Pro. So if that's the case, go up to your File menu and select Capture. This the Premiere Pro Capture tool and at the bottom controls just like a VCR.
So all you need to do is plug in your FireWire camcorder or other camcorder if you have a third party hardware capture board and simply plays through your tape setting in and out points determining where you want to capture. In addition if you are capturing from the DV format, you may wish to take advantage of a feature called DV Scene Detection. All you need to do is insert the tape in your camcorder, click on the Scene Detect checkbox and then simply click on the Tape button to capture the entire tape and what Premiere Pro will do is break your tape out into individual clips based on where you started and stopped recording each individual clip. It's a great time saver.
Now in addition, anytime you start capturing a new clip it's important to let Premiere Pro know the name of your tape. So make sure you give your tape a name and make sure you give your Clips names as you capture them and in addition putting in Descriptions, Scenes, Shot and Take info or Log Notes is going to help you later on when you have to search for your clips when editing.
One last thing I would like to show you here in the Capture Window. You can see there is a little Settings Tab. Go ahead and click that and where a Premiere Pro will save your captured files to, is based on the Capture Locations that you have set down here. Right now it's set to Same as Project. So wherever we save this project, that's where it's going to capture our video. But in cases you maybe wanting to capture to a separate drive. In that case you can click your Browse button, browse to the drive you want and then Premiere Pro will capture your clips there.
One last thing I will mention here before we close out of the captured dialog. If Premiere Pro is having a hard time controlling the playback on your camcorder or deck, you want to come down here to the bottom to Device Control, click on the Options button and what you will need to do here is select the specific Brand and Device Type that you are using. So go ahead and Device Brand and you can see now a selection of different manufactures. I am going to select Sony and I suggest you select the one for your particular camcorder. Under Device Type you can see it say Standard let's click that and here you can see I have a list of literally dozens of different cameras made by Sony.
Now if you don't find your specific camera listed here, just try selecting something close and in most pieces it's going to work. And if you are still having problems, you can click this button Go Online for Device Info and a browser window will open giving you information on your specific device. But if you are not having problems, there is no need to adjust anything in here. Let's go ahead and click Cancel and now let's close the Capture Window.
The last thing we are going to do in this chapter is to import the files we are going to use for the rest of the training. So in order to import files that are already on your hard drive go over to the File menu and select Import. Let's navigate to the Desktop to our Project Files folder and then let's go down to the Media Files Folder. Just double-click that. We want to import the folder called Interview Clips. Go ahead and double-click that and you will see that we have several clips here. What you can do is simply click-and-drag across them just like this or you can also hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard or Command key, if you are on Mac and then hit the letter A key to Select All. Once you have all the files selected, click the Open button and the files are now imported into your project. Go ahead to the File menu and select Save.
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