Adobe Premiere Elements 8 - Manual (Page 57)

52 USING ADOBE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 8 EDITOR
Capturing video
Last updated 8/12/2010
The last frame is superimposed on the current video source in the Capture panel, making it easy to align an object with
its last image. When you click Grab Frame to start the new session, the newly captured frame is numbered sequentially
from the number of the last captured frame.
Capture time-lapse video
1 Connect your capture device to your computer and turn it on.
Note: If it is a WDM device, you may need to turn it on by double-clicking its icon in the Windows My Computer folder.
Doing so may open a Windows video preview window. Close this before proceeding.
2 If it is a tape-based device, do one of the following:
• If capturing live from a camcorder, place the camcorder in Camera mode.
• If capturing from videotape, place the device in Play, VTR, or VCR mode.
3 Click Organize > Get Media and select your connected device.
4 (Optional) Select Capture To Timeline if you want each frame added to the Timeline as it is captured.
5 In the Capture panel, select Stop Motion.
6 Click Create New Stop Motion. A preview of your live video source appears in the Capture window.
7 (Optional) Select the Onion Skinning option in the lower-right corner of the Capture panel to see onion skins—
overlays of previous frames captured. You can use onion skins to line up figures you animate.
8 Select Time Lapse in the lower-left corner of the Capture panel.
9 Click Set Time .
10 Under Frequency, drag any of the time controls (Hrs, Min, Sec) to set the interval at which you want the computer
to capture frames. For example, setting Frequency to 1 minute captures one frame every minute.
11 Under Duration, drag any of the time controls to set the length of the capture session. For example, a duration of 5
hours captures frames, at the frequency you set, for a duration of 5 hours.
12 Click OK, and then click the Start Time Lapse button.
Frames are captured at the rate you specify.
13 When the time-lapse capture is finished, click Close in the upper-right corner of the Capture panel.
14 Save the images by doing one of the following:
• To save the captured images as a single movie file, and as a set of still images, click Yes. Then, give the new movie
a name and location, and click Save.
• To save the captured images only as individual still photos, click No.
Depending on your choice, either the still images, or the still images and movie file, are placed in Project view and the
Organize workspace. Additionally, if you selected Capture To Timeline, the still images, but not the movie file, are
placed into the Timeline.
Delete the previous stop-motion or time-lapse frame
While grabbing stop-motion frames, you may occasionally want to delete the last frame you grabbed, for example, after
unintentionally capturing an intrusive hand or object.
❖ Click Delete Frame in the lower-left corner of the Capture panel.
Note: You can delete additional frames, starting with the most recent one and working backward, by clicking the Delete
Frame button repeatedly.