Understanding offline and online editing

Depending on the level of quality you require and the capabilities of your equipment, you can use Premiere for either online or offline editing when working with analog source material. The settings you specify for capture are dictated by whether you will edit the program offline or online.

Note: When you edit DV clips, all editing is online. DV compression makes standard DV manageable on many systems.

Capturing and Importing Source Clips > Understanding offline and online editing

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