Adobe Premiere Pro CC v.7.xx - Manual (Page 138)

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DVD camcorders and DVD recorders capture video and audio into MPEG-encoded VOB files. VOB files are written into a VIDEO_TS folder.
Optionally, ancillary audio files may be written into an AUDIO_TS folder.
Premiere Pro and Premiere Elements, do not import or decrypt encrypted DVD files.
Import assets from file-based sources with Media Browser
You can import assets into Premiere Pro directly from tapeless media. However, it is more efficient to transfer tapeless media contents to a hard
disk before importing. Also, playback performance is much better from a dedicated internal hard drive or RAID than from a camera or memory card
reader. Larger icons are available to preview clips in the Media Browser. You can scrub, and hover scrub to preview your footage more easily
before importing it. For details, see Working in Icon view.
Use the Media Browser, instead of File > Import, to import files from tapeless sources. The Media Browser assembles the relevant files into
coherent clips, and does not import irrelevant non-media files sometimes found in the folders of tapeless media.
You can drag selected assets directly into the Project panel from the Media Browser. You can also select assets, and then choose File > Import
from Media Browser, or right-click and then choose Import from the context menu.
The default workspace has the Project panel and the Media Browser docked into the same panel. It is not apparent that you can drag clips into
the Project panel in this workspace configuration, but you can. To import assets into the Project panel from the Media Browser, select the clips
you wish to import, and then drag them to the Project tab. The assets will then be imported.
1. (Optional) Transfer the entire contents of one or more P2 cards, Sony Compact Flash cards, XDCAM media, XDCAM EX SxS cards, hard
disk camcorders, DVDs, or AVCHD media to a hard disk. For information about transferring these media, see About transferring files.
For XDCAM EX, copy the entire BPAV folder and its contents, not just one MP4 file at a time.
2. If the Media Browser is not already open, select Window > Media Browser.
You can dock or group the Media Browser like any other panel in Premiere Pro.
3. Browse to the folder containing the media files.
The Media Browser shows a thumbnail or icon (depending on the format) and shot name for each shot in the folder. The Media Browser
automatically aggregates spanned clips and shot metadata from the subfolders into single clips for any of these formats. The Media Browser
shows different sets of metadata for different formats.
4. (Optional) To preview a shot before importing it, double-click the shot in the Media Browser.
Premiere Pro plays the clip in the Source Monitor without importing it into the Project panel.
5. Either select File > Import From Browser, drag clips from the Media Browser into the Project panel, or drag clips from the Media Browser
into a timeline.
The asset or assets are imported into the Project panel as whole clips.
About spanned clips
When a shot or take is recorded requiring more than the file size limit of a medium, a file-based camcorder starts another file, and continues
recording the shot to that file without interruption. This is referred to as clip spanning because the shot spans more than one file or clip. Similarly, a
file-based camcorder sometimes spans a shot across clips on different cards or disks, if the camcorder has more than one card or disk loaded. It
records the shot until it runs out of room on the first medium, then starts a new file on the next medium with available space, and continues
recording the shot to it. Although a single shot or take can be recorded to a group of multiple spanned clips, it is designed to be treated as a single
clip.
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