Think through how you’re going to name your clips. You might end up with dozens of clips, and if you don’t give them descriptive names, it’ll slow down editing.

You might use a naming convention for sound bites such as Bite-1, Bite-2, and so forth. Adding a brief descriptive comment, such as Bite-1 Laugh, will help.

Here are the steps to follow:

1. In the Capture panel Setup area, click the Logging tab.
2. Change the Handles setting (in lower right corner of the Capture panel) to 30 Frames.This adds one second to the start and finish of each captured clip, which will give you enough head and tail frames to add transitions without covering up important elements of the clip.

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   When changing the Handles value, you can click on the current number and type in a new figure, or simply place your cursor over the Handles number and drag it left or right to lower or raise the value. This method of changing a numeric value works throughout Premiere Pro.

3. In the Clip Data section, give your tape a unique name.
4. Log your tape by rewinding and then playing it.When you see the start of a segment you want to transfer to your PC, stop the tape, rewind to that spot and click the Set In button.
5. When you get to the end of that segment (you can use Fast-forward or simply Play to get there), click Set Out. The in/out times will display as well as the clip length.

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   There are other means to set in-points and out-points for selected clips: click the brackets ( { or } ) on the play controls, use the keyboard shortcuts—I for In and O for Out—or change the in/out time directly in the Timecode area by clicking on the timecode and dragging your cursor left or right.

6. Click Log Clip to open the Clip Data dialog box.
7. Change the clip name, if needed, add appropriate notes if you want, and then click OK.That adds this clip’s name with its in/out times and tape name info to the Project panel (with the word “offline” next to it). You’ll go there later to do the actual capture.
8. Log clips for the rest of your tape using the same method.Each time you click Log Clip, Premiere Pro automatically adds a number to the end of your previous clip’s name. You can accept or override this automated naming feature.
9. When you’ve completed logging your clips, close the Capture panel.All your logged clips will be in the Project panel with the word “offline” after each.
10. Select all the clips in the Project panel that you want to capture (see following Tip for three methods to do that).

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    Windows and Premiere Pro offer three ways to select more than one file in a window. If the file names are contiguous, mouse-click on the top one and Shift+click on the last one in the group, or click off to one side and above the top clip and drag down to the last one to marquee select a group (I used the marquee select method—creating the gray rectangle—in the previous figure). If the file names are scattered about, click first one and then Ctrl+click on each additional one in turn.

1. Select File > Batch Capture.That opens a very simple Batch Capture dialog box that allows you to override the camcorder settings or add more handle frames.
2. Leave the Batch Capture boxes unchecked and click OK.The Capture panel opens, as does another little dialog box telling you to insert the proper tape (in your case, it’s probably still in the camcorder).
3. Insert the tape and click OK.Premiere Pro now takes control of your camcorder, cues up the tape to the first clip and transfers that clip and all other clips to your hard drive.
4. When completed, take a look at your Project panel to see the results. offline files have become movies.