Operation Manual

Chapter 2: Capturing video 31
VCDs. MPEGs intended for use on the Internet will be
at lower resolutions and in MPEG-1 format.
The Capture format options panel (Setup ¾ Capture
Format) includes a variety of options to control the
quality of MPEG captures. Refer to “Capture format
settings” on page 252 for detailed information about
MPEG quality options.
Audio and video levels – digital
With DV and MicroMV captures, you are using audio
and video that have been encoded digitally during
recording, right in the camera. When you transfer the
footage through a 1394 port to your computer, the data
remains in the compressed digital format throughout,
so you cannot adjust the audio or video levels during
the capture. This is in contrast to analog captures,
where the audio and video can be adjusted as capturing
takes place.
With digital captures, you defer any needed adjustment
of audio and video levels until Edit mode, where Studio
provides plug-in video effects for adjusting the visual
balance of a clip, and audio effects to enhance the
sound. These effects allow you to adjust individual
clips rather than having to make global adjustments
affecting all the video in a capture file.
For more information see “Analog capture” (below),
“Using video effects” (page 95), and “Audio effects”
(page 220).