From the course: Learning Premiere Elements 2022

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Getting video from a camcorder

Getting video from a camcorder

- Okay, we're continuing to add media to our project. Now many times the video that you'll be using in your Premiere Elements project will be coming from a hard drive camcorder or a camcorder that stores it video on a flash memory card. Now if you prefer, you can manually copy the video from your camcorder to your computer, and then import it into the project as we did in our last session. But Premiere Elements includes a video importer tool, and it's going to do all the work for you. It makes sure that it gets the right files. It copies them from the camcorder onto your hard drive and then imports the media into your project. And it has some nice features that make it my preferred way to work. So I've got my camcorder plugged into the computer via USB, it's a nice Canon camcorder. And I've got the camcorder set on play. And I did some additional configuration that the camcorder requires to speak to the computer via USB.…

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