HDV Capture & Simple Cross fades?

JimmyStephans · Post by **JimmyStephans** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:09 pm

Hi Ulead Friends,

I'm all new here and to Ulead so here is the run down.

I run one of those softcore pretty girl websites (no porn) and for several months I've been creating simple 3 minute video clips.

ORIGINAL Process.... Shoot on simple Sony TVR240 Digital 8. Capture using Vegas 5 that was installed on a used machine I bought... Vegas breaks the tape into clips, based on the stop and start and pause of the camcorder. I love that. I then import the AVI files into Windows Movie Maker 2, do a simple bit of editing / splitting. trimming, add a small soundtrack and output as WMV.

Its simple for me and as advanced as I've had time to learn.

Over the last few days two things changed.

#1, I got a Sony HCR-HC1 camcorder (HDV).

#2, I purchased the VS10+ bunus offer ULead had on special to help with the HDV files (Movie maker doesn't seem to deal with them in Windows XP SP2.

In my all day Sunday playing I found this forum, and referred to the HDV post / tutorial many times and that was a great start -- thanks!

There are two things I haven't found yet...

A... Capturing. I can't seem to get it to break a 55 minute tape of HDV into the small clips like MM2 did with DV recordings. I had to do that manually.

B... Cross fades... at least I think thats whats its called. I'm speaking of when one scene sort of fades away as the other comes on screen. I love that look for my work. In MM2 I have the two clips side by side in the timeline. I simply right click and hold on the second (right) clip, and slowly move it to the left (overlapping the first clip) and a small ballon pops up showing me a time code so I can place it to the 1/10th of a second. That works easy and perfect... But, I can't figure out (yes, just a few hours of playing) how to do the same in VS10+

I'm sure I'll have TONS of silly questions later... but these are the first things that came up.

AMD 2600 / 2GB Ram / WD 80GB-8mb cache- 7200rpm C drive (apps) and WD 250Gb-8mb cache- 7200rpm F drive (data) / ATI Radeon 9500 (128mb) / Windows XP Pro SP2.

Thanks in advance,

Jimmy

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:32 pm

#1 On the Capture window you will see a box named Split By Scene. Check that to have the clips split by the dv timecode.

#2 From the Effects tab, click on the Gallery drop-down menu and choose FX. There you will find the Crossfade transition. Drag it to the timeline, between the 2 clips. If you want all your clips to be seperated by the crossfade transition then go to File>Preferences>General tab and check the Use Default Transition Effect, then choose Crossfade from the list.

JimmyStephans · Post by **JimmyStephans** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:58 pm

Jeff -- Thanks for the fast reply. I wll try the capture step right now and report back -- however, it seems to me that that option was greyed out (unable to check) when I did my first capture test yesterday.

More news in a few...

JimmyStephans · Post by **JimmyStephans** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:05 pm

Yes, I was correct.... the option is not available for "split by scene"

I noticed that the option is also "greyed out" in the tutorial here

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=13872

Any others ideas?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:13 pm

I do not use HD, so maybe it has something to do with that, seeing as the tutorial shows the same issue. I'll leave the answer to our resident HD expert, and author of the HD tutorial, John Hunter. I'm sure he'll be checking in. Sorry I couldn't help you on this one.

See this post http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... ght=#95380

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:30 pm

A) You can't split HDV by scene while capturing. In Edit mode, you can put the capture file in the timeline and split by scene without physically creating separate files.
B) To insert transitions, open the Library-- transitions section -- select one and drag it into the timeline between any two clips.

cgould · Post by **cgould** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:39 am

Does VS10+ w/ the Canon HV10 patch, support split-by-scene (scene detection) with HDV MPG captured files?
MSPro8 does not seem to support this (split by scene timestamp data)- only the "image content" (slow manual scan) method.
Other programs initially had problems with this also, but seem to have patches now to support HDV scene detection, not sure if the VS10 patch does this now.
Otherwise MSPro8 seems to support HDV capture & write-to-tape OK, but it is with MPG2 HDV files, not the "native" M2T transport stream files. Maybe the VS10 patch was to support this Programstream/Transport stream transcoding/remuxing?

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:09 pm

Cgould,
Mpeg2 Transport Stream (.m2t files) is NOT a video compression format - it is simply a packetized version of Mpeg2 Program Stream (.mpg files) that includes error correction/detection information, which improves the chances of error-free transport over lossy transmission links. These packets just get in the way if you want to edit or playback the video.

Video Studio strips off this baggage when it captures HDV, which is the right thing to do, IMO.

I answered your other question about split-by-scene in your other post.