Saving, exporting, and importing batch lists

Capturing and Importing Source Clips > Batch-capturing video > Saving, exporting, and importing batch lists

You can save a batch list to disk. In addition, you can export and import a batch list as a text file. You can control the order of the columns in the text file. Saving a batch list and exporting it creates two very different files:

Saving a batch list preserves each entry and its capture settings (described in the next section) in a file format that only Premiere can read.

Exporting a batch list creates a tab-delimited ASCII text file that lists each entry but does not retain the capture settings. You may want to export a batch list as a text file to edit it in text-editing programs or in video-editing systems that can read text batch lists.

The Batch Capture window menu contains commands you can use to manage settings for a batch list.

To save a batch list:

1 Activate the Batch Capture window that you want to save and do one of the following:

For a new file, choose File > Save As. Specify a location and filename, and click Save.

For an existing file, choose File > Save.

To export a batch list as a timecode-log text file:

1 Activate the Batch Capture window that you want to export.

2 In the Batch Capture window menu, choose Import/Export Settings.

3 Drag columns to rearrange them if desired, and click OK.

4 In the Batch Capture window menu, choose Export to Text File. Specify a location and filename, and click Save.

To import a batch-list timecode log:

1 Activate the Batch Capture window that is to be the destination for the list.

2 In the Batch Capture window menu, choose Import from Text File. Locate and select the file, and click Open.

After you've logged a tape with comments, you can save the batch list to a disk and store the disk with the videotape. This makes it easy to redigitize clips from that tape in the future.

Moving batch-list entries between lists:

1 Open two or more batch capture windows simultaneously by doing any of the following:

Choose File > Capture > Batch Capture to open a new Batch Capture window.

Choose File > Open to open an existing batch-list text file.

2 Drag a file from one list to another.

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