2. Logging and Digitizing

Once you have become familiar with Liquid’s interface, you are ready to begin creating your first production, and because every video production needs video footage, the first thing you’ll need to do is digitize or import material into your computer. This chapter deals with the former, digitizing, often referred to by other NLE programs as capturing.

Digitizing your tapes is one of the more time-consuming and tedious parts of video editing, but Liquid has several tools to help alleviate this problem. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to capture a complete tape, batch capture just a part of it, and detect the various scenes on a tape during the capture process.

Digitizing with Liquid

Digitizing is the process of transferring ...

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