Combining clips

chuckpuckett · Post by **chuckpuckett** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:45 pm

I believe this should be an easy question to answer, although I, alas, cannot find an answer, either in the VS 7 SE docs or in online tutorials.

I captured VCR video with no apparent problems. However, VS7 arbitrarily (or else this was a default setting I didn't understand) recorded into clips approx. 14m30s long. Now, I am recording a tape of a stage production, which has logical separations at scene transitions (Overture; Act I, scene 1; Act I, scene 2; etc). I would like to combine all existing clips into a single clip, and then go back and split them into scene-based clips, but for the life of me, cannot figure out how to combine clips.

Thanks in advance for any info. FYI, I'm in the process of downloading VS 9 upgrade, so any answers might be better framed in that context. [I had downloaded the trial version, but saw nothing about combining. I just decided on lots of comments posted in this forum that newest is bestest.

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After combining, I'll probably have questions about splitting at specific points, but that at least is covered in some detail in several places.

Chuck Puckett

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:27 pm

My guess is that you are using an operating system that doesn't support files > 4GB, or that you captured to a drive formatted using the FAT32 file system.

You can drop multiple capture files into the UVS timeline, and let it split the video (either based on timecode information if you captured in DV format, or based on scene contents). The usefulness of splitting based on scene contents depends on the nature of the video (ci.e. ontinuous single-angle shot with camcorder vs. TV program capture) and the sensitivity of the scene change detector.

kebrinton · Post by **kebrinton** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:30 pm

Hi chuckpuckett --

I can't tell whether you're asking one question or two.

Any video you capture will NOT be separated into clips or scenes if you UNcheck the little box on the left of the Capture screen. It's the one which says "Split by scene" or some such. (I'm not at my fun computer; I'm at work.)

Any thus-captured video will be one enormous file about 13GB per hour of footage. It will be named 050425-001 for today, and -002 if you capture another video today.

If you already HAVE your multi-clip video captured, you can form them into one single clip by putting them all into the Timeline and then going to Share > Create Video File / Same As Project Properties. Whatever changes you have made to the original clips (in this case putting one next to another all the way down the line) will be made permanent. If you started with .AVI, you will get .AVI.

Was that what you needed?

Keith

chuckpuckett · Post by **chuckpuckett** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 3:02 am

That was it. Thanks for 2 important pieces of info!

Chuck Puckett

gl9500 · Post by **gl9500** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:27 pm

kebrinton wrote:... then going to Share > Create Video File / Same As Project Properties. Whatever changes you have made to the original clips (in this case putting one next to another all the way down the line) will be made permanent. If you started with .AVI, you will get .AVI.
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It seems when VS(7) does this, it strips the date/timecode from the AVI. What I did was take the created .AVI and imported to MovieFactory(2) and wanted to have autochapters created at scenes, but MF could not "see" the separate scenes. Bummer!

Is there a way to have VS preserve the date/timecodes in the AVI??