A batch list of logged clips appears as a list of offline files in the Project panel. If you plan to capture many clips, you may want to create bins in the Project panel in advance so that you can log each set of offline clips directly into its own bin. When you batch capture, the offline files are replaced by captured clips, maintaining the bin organization you set up in advance.

You can capture audio and video to separate drives, if this is supported by the format codec. (This is not supported by the native DV and HDV capture in Adobe Premiere Pro.) Set the locations for new files by choosing Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Preferences > Scratch Disks (Mac OS). If you don’t change the defaults, all files captured or created by Adobe Premiere Pro are stored in the same folder in which it stores the project files.

By default, the settings that Adobe Premiere Pro uses to batch capture offline files are the project’s current capture settings. If an offline file has its own capture settings, Adobe Premiere Pro uses those settings when capturing it; the resulting clip maintains its capture settings so that it can easily be recaptured using the same settings. For example, if a clip’s settings specify capture at a frame size of 720 x 480 in a project with a frame size of 320 x 240, Adobe Premiere Pro captures the clip at 720 x 480 unless you change its default. You can override a clip’s capture settings by choosing the Override Capture Settings option in the Batch Capture dialog box.