And the advantage off batch capture is?

[Tim Kurkoski]

It depends on your workflow. Some folks like to watch the tape and write down what they want to capture, then set up the batch and let it work by itself. Other folks, myself included, don’t worry about disk space and just capture the whole tape with the scene detect option on.

Also, in the olden days, you needed to set up a batch list if you thought you would need to recapture your clips, you couldn’t just do it straight from the project window like you can with Premiere Pro.

In short, do what works for you. I’m sure other folks will chime in with their opinions.

[Craig Howard]

I second scene detect as the best option with a good naming protocol.

I create column in the Project window called ‘Delete’

As I view and name clips (‘Comments Column)I mark the “Deletes” with a ‘D’ then Unlink the media from the Project ( using the remove from Hard disk option also). I use a sort on the Delete column to get the ‘D’s together and mass remove them from Project and Drive at the same time.

I think this is faster than batch capture in this instance.

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[David J]

Scenalyzer Live is particularly useful in this area. You can work in a number of ways, but the ability to generate batch captures from scene-detected footage is very much easier in SCLive than Premiere, IMO. Visit http://www.scenalyzer.com for details and a try-before-buy download.

[Mike Smith]

The plus of batch capture is that it can help you view, log and capture more quickly, if you get used to the workflow, but you don’t have to load up your hard disc with – in your case – a sizeable percentage of 120 hours of material you don’t want.

If you mark ins and outs on the fly, and then choose the “log clip” option, you get to name and make any comments on the clip before capture, and can then go straight on. At the end of the reel you can use batch capture to gather all (or a subset of) of your logged clips, so you don’t have to return to that source reel unless you want to. You can do something els while the machine’s doing this, and I find total time view / log / capture is often less like this, compared to the method you outlined. On a (for me rare) project where I want to capture a whole reel, then Iv’e foudn scene detect to be good.

Batch capture seems pretty stable so long as source timecode is good (no breaks, like amateur DV often has) though sometimes I’ve found a shot or two is missed for some reason – then it’s reselect and retry capture, which for me has always worked so far.

[Rich Rosen]

dunno. seems it’s more work than capturing as I screen. I’ve mapped my arrow keys to record, stop, jog.

[Mike Smith]

Whatever suits. I find different jobs call for different ways of working. For me, the time saving in not waiting for the tape to wind back, find the inpoint, then replay for capture after each clip is logged can be substantial if there’s a lot of material to capture.

All best