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Defining your Capture settings
Defining your Capture settings
Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme lets you capture your video to DV/DVCAM format at a
fixed data rate of 25 Mb/sec, or to MPEG-2 IBP format at a selected data rate.
For example, you can capture to DV/DVCAM format to create .avi files for use in
your Premiere projects, or capture to MPEG-2 IBP format to create MPEG-2
Elementary (.m2v) files for use with the Sonic ReelDVD Studio and DVDit! SE
authoring programs.
¡ImportantClips captured to MPEG-2 IBP format are suitable for DVD
authoring, but are not supported in your Adobe Premiere projects. Only Matrox
DV/DVCAM .avi files are supported in your Adobe Premiere projects.
°To specify your settings for capturing material in Adobe Premiere on
Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme:
1 Choose Project > Project Settings > Capture.
2 From the Capture Format list, select Matrox AVI Capture to capture to
DV/DVCAM format, or
Matrox M2V Capture to capture to MPEG-2 IBP
format.
¦NoteDV/DVCAM video is saved to an .avi file. MPEG-2 IBP video is saved
to an MPEG-2 Elementary (.m2v) file.
3 If you’ll be capturing audio with your video, make sure that both Capture
Video
and Capture Audio are selected.
¦NoteMake sure you’ve correctly set your sound card’s volume levels for
recording and playback as explained in the section “Set your volume levels”
on page 13.