autodetect scenes while capturing

wettie · Post by **wettie** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:50 am

how can i set VS10 to autodetect scenes from my camcorder while capturing?

thank you.

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:42 am

there's a check box for this in the capture screen, next to the cog wheel under the file location field.

However I think it's a bad idea usually (you may have a special need) because you will clutter your hard disk with hundreds of small files with numbered filenames.
I find it better to capture in one block and then use the editor to split the scenes virtually in the clips library. That only defines pointers to offsets in the file and you keep your capture session as a whole (easier for renaming, backing up etc).

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:44 am

Sometimes to get it to work, you have to have the right video source -- what will you be feeding VS10 (DV camcorder via firewire, analog-to-dv device, some other analog converter, etc...)

The DV "Split by scene" within VS10 is great when your source comes from a dv camcorder and you captured/transferred to dv .avi to your hard drive.

Regards,
George

Post by **jparnold** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:50 am

Check out Steve's excellent tutorial regarding Video Capture and Split By Scene. You will need to scroll down a little after you click here

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:57 pm

Hi wettie

I agree with Daniel
Capture to one file, then use the ¡¥Split by Scene¡¦ option from the editor.

You can perform split by scene in the Library or Timeline.
If you use the library, it may be best to create a new library page.

The video file/clip has to be un-edited, otherwise split by scene will be disabled.

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:42 pm

one reason why you could want to split while capturing is if you know you have a huge part of the video that you will discard (camera ON by error). Then deleting this part/file after capture is easy, while a scene split keeps the full video on your disk.

Then you would need to save the trimmed videos and then delete the orginal.
That's what I do but I admit it's more work.

wettie · Post by **wettie** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:50 pm

thanks, guys!

so, detecting scenes is not advisable. will keep that in mind.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:54 pm

Hi

No we did not say that, but the option to detect scenes after capture may be more preferable

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:09 pm

I don't mean to be problematic here, but I have to say that I almost invariably use split-by-scene during capture of my mini-DV tapes. But that is because I happen to love having a variety of smaller, individual clips cluttering up my library!!

Call me old fashioned, but I happen to trust real, separate files more that the virtual ones created by VS in the multi-trim or editing phase... This is because I have had artefacts creep in around virtual cuts when I have moved virtual clips around significantly in the timeline.

As a footnote to the foregoing discussion, split-by-scene will only work during capture if you are capturing to DV format. Won't work if you are capturing to mpeg-2 or other formats. But as is obvious from some of the earlier posts, you can split mpeg-2 by scene after capture.