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How to capture footage Mini DV Method Question
I am new to P.CS3 and have been feeling my way around the interface, which is going okay. But one question I have at the moment is how to best capture footage.
Initially I was capturing the footage through a new project for each tape. After about 10 or so captures I thought this seems wasteful of resources, a folder w/ the files from P.CS3 is created everytime for that project, so I created one project for the sole purpose of capturing footage.Is this the best way to capture? I have about 40 tapes. I was then thinking of moving all the avi files that I have captured into a separate folder for just footage and then select and use the files as needed in whatever project I am creating. Again, is this the best method for capturing, storing and logging my OG files?
Thanks,
Doug
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Yes keep working with one project. 40 hours of tape is quite a lot of footage. I’d probably be selecting out the bits that are not worth capturing and capture only the decent stuff.
If you have all 40 hours of tape in one project it might become unstable. So if you want a project with heaps of captured stuff but not inside the project. You can capture the whole tapes, with the scene detect feature, so if there is a part that’s crap, the whole take, you can offline it/them and delete from the hard drive too.
Or you can offline a heap of clips, do not delete and they will no longer fill up the ram for running the project, but still be on the hard drive.
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John,
Thanks for the quick reply. I would like to restate your suggestions to ensure my understanding.
So you are recommending that I use one project for capturing, correct?
Then there use the feature, scene detect to archive the data for permanent storage but will eliminate its immediate access reducing resource overhead…. correct?If this is a correct intreptation, I will go read up on scene detect. Is this done after the capture is completed or during capture or able during both?
Please forgive my newbie questions.
Thanks,
Doug
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So you are recommending that I use one project for capturing, correct?
Yes
Then there use the feature, scene detect to archive the data for permanent storage but will eliminate its immediate access reducing resource overhead…. correct?
…I think that’s what I was saying. If you don’t have all the captured clips, which be added to the project once captured (by default), in the project then the project size won’t bloat out and become unstable. If you use the “make offline” function and make sure “keep on disk” is ticked then you won’t delete them from the captured hard drive only stop PPro from having them in the project. You’ll then have a heap of reference batch list style offline reference clips. Delete them too if you want.
If this is a correct intreptation, I will go read up on scene detect. Is this done after the capture is completed or during capture or able during both?
Scene detect will chop up the capture whenever the tape stop/started during shooting. It captures everything but separates the clips into each stop/start (only on PC version – mac version makes subclips and has the entire capture as one non-stop mov file).
– Cheers, Jon 😉
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If you are planning to make several different movies based on the 40(!) hours material, you can capture this in one project to have all footage in one (stock) folder.
Then you can open a new project for each movie and import only the material for this movie from the “stock folder”.Phocas Kroon
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