If you're using the digital camcorder:

If you're using the VCR:

From the Start Menu, choose Programs → Sound and Video Editing → Adobe Premiere 6.0.

You will see the Load Project Settings dialogue box. Confirm that Pinnacle DV NTSC (the default) is selected. Select OK.

Go to File → Capture → Movie Capture. The Movie Capture box will open.

The Settings tab should be selected. Choose Edit in the Capture Settings area.

If you are using the digital camcorder, the screen in the Movie Capture box should be black. If you're using the VCR, it should be blue, displaying Ch. 2.

Still on the Settings tab, select Edit in the Preferences area.

Find the small Pinnacle Systems Instant Video RT box.

If you're using the digital camcorder:

If you're using the VCR:

Each time you stop recording, you will be prompted to save the clip. If you don't want to keep it, name it something like Delete so that you will remember which ones to delete later on.

After you have captured all of your movie clips, minimize or close the Movie Capture box.

(If you want to preview a clip, select it in the Project box and select the Play button (black triangle) in the area above the clips).

Click and drag the first clip from the Project box to the Video 1A channel in the Timeline box. You can use the Timeline box to turn several clips into one clip.

From the Start Menu choose Programs → Sound and Video Editing → Cleaner 5.

In Premiere, go to File → Export Timeline → Encode With Cleaner. The Cleaner dialogue box will open.

Select Start.

Return to Cleaner by maximizing it from the taskbar.

In Cleaner, double-click on the movie clip in the Untitled Batch box.

The Project: Premiere window will open displaying the beginning of the clip and some buttons underneath. (There must be an image in this window. If the screen is black, skip to the troubleshooting section at the bottom of this page).

In the Settings area, select the Edit button. This is where the encoding takes place.

Choose WWW. Select Continue.

Choose your preferred format: Quicktime, Real Player, or Windows Media Player. Quicktime has the highest quality and largest files. Windows Media Player has smaller files and displays the video in a smaller window than Quicktime. Real Player produces medium file sizes, but displays in a window about the size of Quicktime. SILS does not have a streaming media server, so if you're planning to house your video on a SILS web page, choose non-streaming options.

Choose the rest of your settings by reading each option and deciding what would be best for your audience and your purpose. After choosing the last one, you will select the Finish button.

In the Untitled Batch window, select the Start button (gray triangle) to begin processing. You should be prompted to give a name to your file. (If you aren't, remember to go to the E: drive and rename it after it has finished encoding).

An Output window will open and show you the progress of encoding your video. Depending on the format, quality, and length of the video, this could take a number of minutes.

After the encoding has finished, if you want to encode another clip, close Cleaner and return to Premiere. Your clips will be saved in the E: drive.

Put video on your Web page simply by linking to it rather than linking to an .html page.

You may want to offer several formats for your clip depending on who your audience is. Most users on our campus will have a broadband connection, but many people at home have at best a 56K connection. You may also want to encode for use in multiple media players.

If you have any trouble with any of the above steps, take a minute to locate where your .avi files are. These are the very large files that will be encoded in Cleaner. Your .avi files should be found in the E: directory.

If they are not there, check the following path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Premiere 6.0 and move the files if they are there.

It would be best for the .avi files to be on E: since E: is intended to house large files, and, ideally, both Premiere and Cleaner should look for .avi files there.

Delete any clips in the Untitled Batch window by selecting them and pressing the Delete key.

Go to File → Add Files to Batch.

Choose your .avi file and select OK.

You should see your clip in the Project: Premiere window.

This is an extremely abbreviated introduction. Both Premiere and Cleaner are very powerful programs. (Cleaner, for example, lets you strip out an audio track from a video clip and save it as an MP3).

For more information on Premiere, go to [ http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/premiere.html ] Adobe's page. They have a few tutorials on a variety of things you can do.

For more information on Cleaner, there are some in-depth tutorials at [ http://streamingmedia.com ] streamingmedia.com. Here is the current link: http://www.streamingmedia.com/tutorials/category.asp?whichcategory=encoding.

Feel free to ask the lab attendant for assistance, or to borrow the Premiere 6.0 book. Happy capturing!