Adobe Premiere is a video editing program. Here is the procedure for capturing from video cassette or laserdisc (for text-only instructions see: Text Instructions).

1a. Turn on laserdisc player or video cassette player.
1b.Turn on RCA A/V Source Selector and select laserdisc or vcr
1c. Turn on the Sony DV Hardware Codec Converter and and select Analog In

2. Quit most other programs currently running (except DragStrip and the browser running these instructions)

3. Open Adobe Premiere and Chose 640x480 uncompressed

4. Under File, chose Preferences > Scratch Disk / Device Control.
make sure Device Control is none and that the scratch disks have at least 1.5 GB of free space

5. Under File, chose Capture > Movie Capture

6. Begin playing your video cassette or laserdisc. You should see and hear your video in the Movie Capture window. (If you do not see and/or do not hear your video, see: Settings) Click on the record button in the movie capture window. Click the mouse button to stop recording.

7. To save the clip, chose File > Save. Make sure the drive you save to has enough space on it to fit your movie.

To edit the start and end points of your clip and get a screen shot of your movie, open the movie you saved with QuickTime and do the following (for text-only instructions see: Text Instructions):

1. Navigate to the points before or after sections you want to delete

2. Move the triangles so the the section to be deleted is in grey.

3. Chose Edit > Cut to delete this grey area.

4. Navigate to a screen shot you want to save.

5. Chose File > Export. and chose as Export settings Movie to Picture, uncompressed.

1. Open this file you exported with Adobe Photoshop. Crop the image to get the portion of the screen shot you want to use.

2. Reduce the image size (Chose Image > Image Size) to 110 pixels high

3. Chose Save a copy and save as a jpeg.