CGA Video Editing

Video editing procedure

1. Optional: restart the stand-alone machine entitled, Videoedit.
• Username is: videoedit and Password (case-sensitive) is: Smith232B1
2. Once you're logged in and everything's loaded, please turn on the external Video Capture Card (the Data Video DAC-100).
   • If it was already on, please turn it off and turn it back on by depressing the power switch on the output (back) side:
   
   
3. Once the Dialog Box entitled Digital Video Device pops up, please click OK.
   • Please make sure that, within the dialog box, Take No Action is highlighted

     

4. Next, please depress the SOURCE button on top of the DAC-100 to switch to AV (Analog Video).

   

5. Now we can double-click Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 to launch it.
6. After it loads, please choose the Capture Video button.
7. When the New Project dialog box pops up, please click OK and then say Yes to the Save As... dialog box that pops up.
   • Please note: feel free to save the project as another name or to another location if you feel comfortable doing so.

     

8. Now you should be ready to start playing your source video...
   • Please click the Capture button to start recording a clip:
     
     • Please Note: if you cannot see the source video and hear sound (audio) but do not see pictures (just a black screen), you might need to try a few things like:
       1. Ensure that Colour quality is set to Highest in the video settings.
       2. Adjust to a higher resolution of display.
       3. In Windows Media Player, go to the Tools → Options → Performance and then move the Video Acceleration to less than Full or all the way to None (alternatively, you could click Advanced... there and adjust the overlays).
       The issue with audio (sound) but no video is a Windows Media Player issue and not one related to Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0.
   • In order to stop the capture, simply click the same button again (it should now say Stop Capture).
   • Optional: you may repeat this process multiple times to create many clips, which will be added to the timeline window below.
9. Exporting to a DVD is done most easily by using the Export button:
   
   • Please click the Export button on the toolbar and choose To DVD in order to bring up the Burning DVD Dialog box (pictured below).
   • Please note: if the DVD Burner is not picked up in the DVD burning dialog box, please do the following:
     1. Remove the firewire cable connecting the LaCie DVD Burner (NEC ND-2500A) to the PC and then re-insert it.
     2. After a few seconds, please click the Rescan button to let Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0's DVD burning dialog locate the LaCie DVD Burner.
     3. Once up, you should ensure that Status: is set to Ready, as in the image below:
        
        Please Note: you might have to insert a blank DVD (+R/RW only on the LaCie DVD Burner (NEC ND-2500A)) in order to get the Ready status above.
     The reason you have to do the above procedure is because of the way firewire daisy-chains components and gives them independent LUN IDs on the PC.
   • Also, please note that the longer the clip you want to burn, the correspondingly longer time the burn will take. In addition, when you're doing the actual burn, the last little bit at the end (where it burns the lead-out) can, and usually does, take quite a long time to finish.
10. You may also use the Export button to export to a Quicktime (.mov) or MPEG (.mpg) file.
11. Optional: Press the power switch on the DAC-100 to turn it off and shut down the machine entitled Videoedit.

Miscellaneous Notes Follow...

• Nota Bene: Upon playing the newly-burned DVD, when you insert the DVD for playback into some computers, you might have to first launch PowerDVD manually, as not all computers will automatically start playing the DVD (although all regular DVD players should start playing it automatically). Please feel free to play with the different DVD formats available within Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 to see which one is more to your liking.
• If you notice any errors that reference memory or memory address when you close an application, please feel free to ignore them. They simply mean that the programmers of that application weren't diligent enough in releasing resources the application used upon exiting the application. To be on the safe side, you might want to reboot the machine or simply shut it down if you no longer need to use it.
• Finally, every once in a while (especially whenever you find the amount of disk space or the amount of time available to record go down significantly), you should delete all the contents inside the folder entitled Shortcut to Adobe Premiere Data -- Delete At Will on the Desktop.