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Importing Material
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Capturing Media
After importing our list, we can proceed to Capture media into our Library via
the ..Capture button.
The capture process will examine on-disk file media and compare it with
events in our list. Those that match will be loaded into our library and have a
status set to Found. Matching can be performed on timecode alone, or on
timecode and tapename.
Because capture list events are always matched (linked) to material
in the project library, if the library contains matching material when
the list is imported, the match will be shown immediately in the
Status field. In this case, the list event Status will say Found for
those events we can match.
Capture opens a file browser and we choose a starting folder from which to
search for media matching our event list. Each piece of media we find has its
timecode and tapename extracted as per the settings we have in the Capture
Controls. For a discussion of this metadata extraction process, see the
Capture/Conform chapter in the appendices.
Capture Controls
The Capture Controls set the mechanisms we use for extracting the timecode
and tapename information from material we find on disk.
As we recursively search from the chosen starting folder, the extracted
timecode and tapename is compared to each list event and if we find a
match, we change the matched event status from Needed to Found.