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Adobe Premiere Pro Help Capturing and Importing Source Clips

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3 Click OK to close the Project Settings dialog box.

Note: If you’re using the Capture window and a “No Device Control” or “Capture Device

Ofﬂine” message appears at the top of the Capture window, set up Device Control. See

“Using device control” on page 67.

Avoiding DV capture problems

If you run into problem while capturing DV footage, refer to Adobe Premiere Pro DV

capture topics or the documentation for your camera, deck, or capture card, or check the

Adobe Web site (www.adobe.com) for technical support. The following are common

issues and solutions that may arise when capturing DV video:

• If your device (camera or deck) goes into sleep mode, close and then reopen the

Capture window; or close the Capture window, turn the device off and back on, and

then reopen the Capture window. You can disable sleep mode on many cameras by

connecting them to AC power and ejecting the tape.

• Don’t be concerned if video looks grainy in the Capture or Monitor window. Video is

captured and stored at full quality and always plays at full quality on an NTSC or PAL

monitor. On slower systems, Adobe Premiere Pro may lower the quality of the capture

preview in order to ensure that sufﬁcient CPU resources are available for full-quality

capture. You can change the display quality setting for Monitor window playback in the

Monitor window menu.

• If the video image does not appear in the Capture window, verify your device control

and capture settings. To adjust device control settings from the Capture window, click

the Settings tab; then click Options in the Device Control section. In the Device Control

Options dialog box, make sure that the Check Status option is set to Online. If it is not

set to Online, make sure that the options are set correctly, that your device is on and set

correctly, and that your IEEE 1394 connections are secure. To ensure that Adobe

Premiere Pro can see the device, quit Adobe Premiere Pro, leaving the device on, and

then restart Adobe Premiere Pro. Then open the Capture window, click the Play

button

, and click within the capture preview area.

• If captured audio and video are not in sync, make sure that sections of tape weren’t

skipped (completely unrecorded) between shots. Blank tape areas lack timecode,

which may cause interruptions in the camera time mode. When you capture the blank

area, the camera doesn’t transmit valid frames, but time continues to be marked. To

ensure proper timecode recording, see

“Recording continuous timecode as you shoot”

on page 90.