Lesson 12. Capturing Digital Video

Lesson Files

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Media

Your own

Time

This lesson takes approximately 60 minutes to complete.

Goals

Capture digital video

Set capture bins

Log clips and add notes

Set markers in clips while logging

Choose user preferences

Set system settings

Choose Easy Setup preset

Autosave a project

Capturing digital video is where all the fun of editing begins. But capturing doesn’t stand alone—its partner is logging. If you just want to get to it, you can capture with default settings and very little logging information. If you want to work more professionally, you can experiment with different capture settings and organize your clips with loads of logging information. As you learned in working with the Browser, this logging ...

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