Splitting DV automatically by date in avi format not working

chewy76 · Post by **chewy76** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:51 am

Hello,
I am capturing DV in avi format with firewire and the advanced settings are set to automatically split according to recording dates. MF5 is not accomplishing this and is just giving me four clips from an hour's worth of footage. Windows movie maker seems to have no problem with this but I would rather not have to rely on a seperate program when MF5 should accomplish this. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
chewy

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:58 am

Hi Chewy, and welcome to the forums..

In the video that you are capturing, are there more then 1 date, is the time span between clips significant? DMF5 obviously is not seeing a difference. This could be that due to only a few minutes difference between clips DMF5 thinks there is none, so doesn't split it.

If it is giving you 4 clips then it appears that DMF5 is seeing a date/time change to some extent.

Ron P.

chewy76 · Post by **chewy76** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:23 pm

Thanks for the response Ron,
But MF5 is splitting it into the same size segments as when I had tried to capture the video in full. It seems to be a split just in tems of size. Also, the dates range from April to December so they are pretty significant.
Chewy

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:01 pm

I'm beginning to think that this is related to the 4gig splitting that DMF5 is doing. As far as I can find, there has not been a solution to that problem. MF5 splits the capture into 4 gig chunks, regardless of NTFS...

Do a search in this forum on "split" and you will find some posts by ruggy1 and madddrummer that talk about this..

Ron P.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:16 pm

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:52 pm

MD,

I see where it does benefit you, and that you have a FAT32 partition that limits the size anyway. However where Chewy is concerned it doesn't seem to be the case. It seems to split the same size even though he is trying to capture a full video..

That's why I think it might be an oops bug in the program. Then again they may have programmed it that way intentionally....

Ron P.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:02 pm

There are two methods to split your video into scenes according to the time/date stamp.

1. When importing from the camcorder.
Or the other way
2. Click Add/Edit chapter.
Auto Add chapters.
Auto Scene Detection.

DVDMF5 Manual wrote:• To use Auto Add Chapters, your video must be at least one minute long or have
scene change information.
• If you click Auto Add Chapters and your video is a DV-formatted AVI file captured
from a DV camcorder, DVD MovieFactory can automatically detect scene changes
and add chapters accordingly.
• If the selected video is an MPEG-2 file with scene change information, DVD
MovieFactory automatically detects each scene change and generates it as a
chapter when you click Auto Add Chapters.

Try the other way.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:17 pm

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:21 pm

Sorry if I have confused anyone.

You can either split by scene when you transfer the material from the camcorder to the hard drive.

Alternatively transfer as one whole file and then later use the split by scene function. Theoretically they should be identical and it is user choice which method is selected.

The poster is having problems splitting using the one method so I am suggesting try the other way to see if it fixes the problem or not.

The first method creates several smaller avi files on the hard drive.
The second method creates one avi file but several "chapters"