Automatic Clipping

HaloHunter · Post by **HaloHunter** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 6:27 am

I've always used microsoft movie maker 2 before I moved to ULEAD MediaStudio. Anyway, heres my question

Is there a way for the system to automaticly clip my movie? When I used to use MS movie maker and I imported a huge file, the system would automaticly creates clips of each scene. Whenever I import my huge movie into Ulead Video Editor, it dosent clip it, I basicly have my whole raw footage as one clip.

I figured out how to do it manually in Ulead VideoCapture by selecting the mark-in and mark-out of each scene manually and then clicking save as. But this process is too long because my movie has 60 scenes.

Help please.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:20 am

I'm not sure if you have VideoStudio or MediaStudio -- you mention the latter, but posted in the forums for the former.

UVS8 has two ways of splitting source video into scenes. One is to rely on scene change information in the source file (DV AVI or MPEG only), and the other is to look for actual differences between subsequent frames.

If you use a DV camcorder, the timecode is used as the source of the scene change information, so any time you start and stop recording, you are creating a scene -- that's fine for unedited home videos.

If you try to split an edited video file with multiple scenes, this won't work, and UVS will need to look for a significant change in the contents of subsequent video frames to determine when a new scene starts. Unfortunately, this is not very reliable, and the sensitivity will likely need to be adjusted on a case-by-case basis for the nature of the source video.

HaloHunter · Post by **HaloHunter** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 12:40 pm

THoff wrote: If you use a DV camcorder, the timecode is used as the source of the scene change information, so any time you start and stop recording, you are creating a scene -- that's fine for unedited home videos.

Thats what I'm trying to do. Except whenever I try to capture using DV Capture, it always captures as one clip. Some settings I have to change, or do I use a different program?

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 3:06 pm

If you are using Video Studio (this is for VS8, I think 7 is similar): in capture mode look at the upper left panel. Just below Capture Settings is a little box labelled Split by Scene. Make sure that is checked.

jchunter_2 · Post by **jchunter_2** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 3:38 pm

You don't have to split by scene while capturing. Just drag your single captured file into the timeline and click "Split by Scene." Hit the Scan button and it will transform the entire file into single clips.

Unfortunately, these single clips are "virtual" - they are not individual files - they are just pointers to positions in your original file. Therefore you will not be able to save disk space by deleting bad clips (e.g., when the camcorder is left on while in the camera case)...