Chapter 2. Logging and Digitizing

Once you have become familiar with Liquid Edition's interface, you are ready to begin creating your first production, and because every video production needs video footage, the first thing you'll need to do is digitize or import material into your computer. This chapter deals with the former, digitizing, often referred to by other NLE programs as capturing.

Digitizing your tapes is one of the more time-consuming and tedious parts of video editing, but Liquid Edition does have several tools to help alleviate this problem. In this chapter, I will cover capturing a complete tape, batch capturing just part of it, and how to detect the various scenes on a tape during the capture process.