<table border="0" cellpadding="20px" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="1_11_3_0.html" title="Recording your movie to videotape">Previous</a> | <a href="1_11_3_2.html" title="Export To Tape options">Next</a> | <a href="1_11_0_0.html">Exporting Movies</a> > <a href="1_11_3_0.html">Recording your movie to videotape</a></div><h4 class="head2">Exporting to tape</h4><hr /><ol><p class="paragraph">Exporting your movie to tape is a good way to prepare it for easy presentation, as well as a good way to archive your movies without using hard disk space. Unlike footage burned to DVD, you can recapture the footage that you store on DV tape, as well as append new footage to the tape. </p></ol><p class="headstep">To export to tape:</p><ol><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="1">Connect the DV device (camcorder, deck, or analog-to-digital converter) to your computer by using an IEEE 1394 connection. If you are using an analog source, connect that source to the analog-to-digital converter.</li><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="2">Turn on the camcorder and set it to VTR (or VCR) mode. If the Digital Video Device dialog box appears, close it.</li><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="3">Start Adobe Premiere Elements and open your project.</li><p class="tip"><img src="images/tip.gif" alt="Tip" height="20" width="20" />To give your recording deck additional time before your video starts and after it ends, add black frames before and after the movie in the Timeline window. (See <a href="1_5_9_3.html">Creating black video</a>.) In addition, if you plan to have a postproduction facility duplicate your videotapes, add a minimum of 30 seconds of color bars and tone at the beginning of your program to aid in video and audio calibration. (See <a href="1_5_9_2.html">Creating color bars and a 1-kHz tone</a>.)</p><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="4">Make sure that your video recording device is on, that a blank or appendable tape is in the device, and that the tape's record protection tab is in a position that allows recording. If necessary, cue the tape to the location where you want to begin recording. Make sure that you have sufficient tape, or are recording at an optimal speed, in order to record your entire movie.</li><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="5">Click and hold the Export button <img src="images/C_Export_22x22_N.gif" alt="Export button " height="17" width="18" /> in the task bar, and then choose To Tape.</li><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="6">In the Export to Tape dialog box, select options as desired. For information on available options, see <a href="1_11_3_2.html">Export To Tape options</a>.</li><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="7">Do one of the following to begin recording:</li><ul><li class="bullet" type="disc">If you are using a DV camcorder or other device that Adobe Premiere Elements can control, click Record.</li><li class="bullet" type="disc">If you are using an analog device that is connected to the computer by an analog-to-digital converter, first enable record on your analog device, and then click Record. </li></ul><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="8">If the movie contains unrendered clips, the rendering begins at this point. Once all the clips are rendered, the export begins.</li><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="9">When you are finished recording, click Stop and close the dialog box.</li></ol><hr /><div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="1_11_3_0.html" title="Recording your movie to videotape">Previous</a> | <a href="1_11_3_2.html" title="Export To Tape options">Next</a> | <a href="#top">Top</a> | <a href="1_11_0_0.html">Exporting Movies</a> > <a href="1_11_3_0.html">Recording your movie to videotape</a></div></td></tr></table>
