About capturing and digitizing

To bring footage into an Adobe Premiere Pro project, you can capture it, or digitize it, depending on the type of source material:

Capture: You capture digital video from a live camera or from tape. That is, you record it from the source to the hard disk. Most digital camcorders and decks can record video to tape, but video on tape must be captured (transferred to the hard disk) before Adobe Premiere Pro can use it in a project. In Adobe Premiere Pro, the capture function, in conjunction with a digital port or capture card (for example, FireWire or SDI), can capture digital video from tape and save it to disk as files that you can then add to your project. You can use Adobe After Effects to start Adobe Premiere Pro and start the capture process. Alternately, you can use Adobe OnLocation to capture video.
Digitize: You digitize analog video from a live camera source or from tape. Analog video is recorded by analog camcorders and decks. The data must be digitized (converted to digital form) before a computer can store and process it. In Adobe Premiere Pro, the capture function, in conjunction with a digitizing card or device, converts analog video to digital files.

For a video tutorial on capturing and importing assets, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0231.