Spliting scenes with HV20

jimo · Post by **jimo** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:35 am

Just replace my mini DV JVC with the HV20, when I capture video the "Split by Scene" option is grayed out, is it not possible to split the mpg format during capture?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:04 am

As I understand it, split by scene does not work during capture from a HD camera. (And split by scene never worked for mpeg format video during capture from a mini DV camera, only after the full capture.)

jimo · Post by **jimo** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:21 am

any thoughts on editing 3 hours of raw mpg into 1 hour, normally i would have captured by scene and shortened, deleted or split scenes until down to 1 hour, I started by capturing 3 tapes giving me 3, 1 hour clips, I then split by scene but the handles are so close togather they are hard to move in small amounts and if i try to split scenes it tells me i have to undo split by scene first.

jimo · Post by **jimo** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:23 am

Are there any advantages to 11+ over 10+ with regards to editing mpg files?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:48 am

jimo wrote:Are there any advantages to 11+ over 10+ with regards to editing mpg files?

The advantage that immediately springs to mind is the new multiple timelines option that enables you to view all of the timelines at once.
In VS10+ you have to scroll up/down.

In addition you can make cuts on these overlay tracks.

jimo · Post by **jimo** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:05 am

I found a great little capture utility, it captures by scene, just as if DV. VS then recognizes the indivudaul files as m2t files. Best of all its FREE

jimo · Post by **jimo** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:07 am

You would think if someone can do this and post it free that Ulead could have included it in VS 11+

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:25 am

If you would care to share with us the link to the FREE program I will add it to our

free stuff that can be used with Ulead products

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:12 am

Steve,
The program is probably HDVSplit, supposedly also works under Vista.
http://strony.aster.pl/paviko/hdvsplit.htm

But the poster here never stated what version of VS he is using.
Split by scenes can have problems because of long GOP's. These files should be rendered out to PS format for more reliable editing.

If using VS10+ with the updates using those .m2t files no problem, VS10+ will convert them to PS..
If using VS11+ not sure you will read the correct fielding information. If using VS11+ it's best to capture within Vs11+ and to trim use the Multi-trim feature, then use the "Mpeg Optimizer" to create a new video of the trimmed file.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:50 pm

John,
Many thanks. I have added this to our links to free stuff.
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 091#121091

jimo · Post by **jimo** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:22 pm

Sorry about not giving the link, I am using VS 10+ and it seems to work fine, I would be very interested if someone could test with VS 11 + as I was thinking about upgrading but may not if HDVsplit doesn't work with it.

thanks

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:00 pm

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