Operation Manual

28 Pinnacle Studio 9
quality, automatically controlling your source deck to
locate and capture the footage. The reduced quality of
the preview video therefore has no impact on the
quality of your finished movie. Scenes captured at
preview quality are denoted in the Album by a dotted
border.
Continuous timecode
For the greatest convenience in using SmartCapture,
your digital tape must have continuous DV timecode.
Studio cannot capture in preview quality through
breaks in the timecode. If your camcorder has a
timecode-striping feature, stripe your tape before
shooting. If it does not, the simplest way to avoid
timecode gaps is to overlap your shots if you start and
stop the camcorder during shooting. Before beginning a
new shot, rewind a few frames so that there will not be
a blank spot.
SmartCapture can still be used with tapes that do not
have continuous timecode throughout, but a separate
capture file must be created for each segment of the
tape. SmartCapture will stop capturing when a break in
timecode is detected. To continue capturing, cue the
tape to the start of the next video segment and click
Start Capture again.
Naming convention
If you capture multiple segments from the same tape,
we strongly recommend the following naming
convention: For each capture file that originates from
the same tape, use a name that starts with the same
word.
For example, if you have a tape that contains three
different activities from your vacation, you might call