Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

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Capturing with the Capture panel

With this information as prologue, let’s look at the process for capturing video via

Adobe Premiere Elements’ Capture panel.

1 Connect the DV camcorder to your computer via an IEEE 1394 cable.

2 Turn the camera on and set it to the playback mode, which may be labeled VTR,

VCR, or Play.

3 Launch Adobe Premiere Elements.

Capturing stop-motion

and time-lapse video

Using stop-motion and time-lapse video, you can make inanimate objects appear to

move, or show a fl ower grow and bloom in seconds. In this mode, you capture single

video frames at widely spaced time intervals for later playback

at normal frame rates.

You create stop-motion animations or time-lapse videos by using the Stop Motion

button in the Capture panel. You can capture frames either from pre-recorded tape

or from a live camera feed. Stop-motion capture lets you manua

lly select the frames

you want to capture; Time Lapse capture automatically captures frames at set inter-

vals. Using Time Lapse mode you can reduce a lengthy event, such as a sunset or a

fl ower blooming, to

a very short span.

Note: You cannot capture stop-motion video from an HDV source.

—From Adobe Premiere Elements Help

To capture stop-motion from a tape-based device, do the following:

1 Connect your tape device to your computer and turn it on. Then 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.

2 In the Capture panel, click the Stop Motion button.

3 Click the Create New Stop Motion button in the middle of the Capture panel

preview pane.

4 If capturing

from videotape, use the camcorder’s controls to move to the desired

frame. If capturing live, adjust your scene as desired. Click Grab Frame whenever

the Capture panel displays a frame that you want to save to the hard disk.

Each frame you grab will appear as a .bmp fi le in Project view with a sequential

number in its fi lename.

5 Close the Capture panel and in the dialog that appears, save the still images as a

movie fi le.

See “Capture stop

-motion and time-lapse video” in Adobe Premiere Elements Help

for more information.

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Note: This exercise

assumes that a DV

camera has been

successfully connected

to your computer and

that you have footage

available to capture.

If this is not the case,

you can still open the

Capture panel in order

to review the interface;

however, you will not

be able to access all the

controls.

44 LESSON 3 Video Capture and Import

4 In the Organize workspace, click Get Media.

5 In Get Media view, select DV Camcorder (

) to follow along with this

procedure. Selecting HDV Camcorder (

), or Webcam or WDM Device

(

) will also open the Capture panel, though some settings will be diff erent

from this example.

 e Capture panel appears. Note that if you’re capturing from videotape, your pre-

view screen will be black until you actually start to play the video.

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A. Status area—Displays status information about your camera. B. Preview area—Displays your

current video as played through your camera. C. Capture settings—Enables you to change the cap-

ture settings. D. D evice controls—Contains buttons used to directly control your camera. E. Current

position— Timecode display. Shows you the current frame of your video, measured in the format of

hours;minutes;seconds;frames. F. Clip name—By default, Adobe Premiere Elements uses the project

name to name the AVI movie clips. G. Capture/Pause button

6 On the upper-right area of the Capture panel, choose the desired Clip Name

and Save To location for the captured fi les. Note that Adobe Premiere Elements

defaults to the project name for Clip Name, and uses the folder where you

stored your project fi le for the default Save To location. If desired, change any of

the default Capture settings.

7 At the bottom of the Capture panel, use the navigation controls to navigate to

the fi rst scene you’d like to capture.