Losing scene data when moving clips (VS9)

[willenegger]

VS9 enables users to virtually split clips by scene before adding them to the work space. It does not split the actual file but just keeps pointers to the various scenes. VS9 keeps this data in a file named scenedb.dat. However if the clip is moved to a different location then the scene information is not re-linked and is essentially lost (as far as VS is concerned) although the data is still in the scenedb.dat.

Is there any way to go around this problem and recover the scene info after a clip is moved?

That is, besides not moving the clips to a different folder than the one it was in when the scene data was first generated and/or re-generating the scen information?

I tried simple editing of the file path in the .dat file but this does not seem to work. It would be nice to understand the encoding rule for the scenedb.dat file to 1) update it 2) use it to generate some index db outside of VS (e.g. html page).

Thank in advance.

[wbusselle]

I am now using Prox3 and wondering if and where these pointers are stored now?

[teknisyan]

Hello wbusselle,

On the newer version of Videostudio X3 and X4 in particular, you now have the SPLIT by SCENE feature.



You can visit this for more information on the SPLIT by Scene and on working with clips, you can visit this online help from page http://pnoy.me/7