Exporting Captured Scenes as Individual MPEG Files

[Sifford]

I'm considering buying VS9, but before I do so, I would like to know how I can export various scenes that have been imported from my DV camera. Right now, the only way I know of doing this is creating a separate project for each scene and then exporting the scene to its own video file.

Does VS9 allow you to automatically capture and save unique video files on the hard drive when it recognizes a scene change? Roxio allows this but not sure if Ulead VS9 does.

I would also be open to capturing one large video file...breaking it up by scene using ULead's split scene functionality...but then exporting each scene as its own MPEG2 file.


I'm trying to do this because I use a media server and it makes it much easier to jump to different scenes by saving each scene as its own MPEG2.

Any help or suggestions would be great. Thanks in advance!

[AnimeChick]

If you capture as DV and select Split By Scene, then Videostudio will save each scene break as a seperate DV .avi file. You can then convert each file to mpeg. You can also trim and split segments and on each segment you can tell the program to Save Trimmed Clip.

[El Furax]

Hi,

I have more or less the same needs as Sifford :

My source isn't a DV, so I won't be able to rely on the feature you mention AnimeChick.

=> Is it possible to use the scene detection feature on a generic source (DVD, video file) and have VS9 automatically export the various scenes to separate video files ?


In the "batch convert" tool, you can activate the scene detection, but that makes no difference in the output... or at least it didn't when I tried.

I really hope this is possible : this would be so useful, and everything needed is in the box already (scene detection algorithm which works fine + export capabilities).

[Trevor Andrew]

Split by scene for Dv-Avi is possible during capture.

You can use the Split by Scene function on a Mpeg 2 file but not during capture.

Highlight the Mpeg in the timeline, select Split by Scene from the left menu’s panel.

You can also access Split by Scene from the library.
Make a new library page, insert one Mpeg, right click for the option.

One point the clips have to be complete, ie not have frames removed.


Trevor

[Ken Berry]

I agree with all the advice you have been given. However, I remain intrigued about what exactly you mean by 'export'... What do you want to export it to? If exporting back to your video camera (as I do regularly), it has to be in DV/AVI format if it is a mini DV camera, at least.

[Sifford]

I agree with all the advice you have been given. However, I remain intrigued about what exactly you mean by 'export'... What do you want to export it to? If exporting back to your video camera (as I do regularly), it has to be in DV/AVI format if it is a mini DV camera, at least.

When I say export, I mean taking the original DV file, breaking it up by scene, and putting each scene in a compressed format (i.e. MPEG2). Then I take these MPEG2 files and access them on my computer's hard drive using my DLink Media Server

[El Furax]

Eh eh Sifford, I think we really need the same feature !!

Trevor, thanks for your input, but I'm already successfully using the scene split feature within VS9, which kind of creates "bookmarks" against the source file to spot the scene borders. But these bookmarks are only available within VS9, and you don't have an extended interface to manage them.

Ken spotted the issue here, lemme explain myself :

Here's the plan :
Input :

big video file (in my case, analog 8mm movies captured to DVD then ripped to disk, which gives ~200Mo files for each 5 min chapter).

Expected ouput :

For every single input file, many separate output video files (say, mpeg2), which hold exactly one scene (as per the available scene detection algorithm).
Then I can rename, flag, move, order, index those files to create a huge scene library at the Windows File system level, which I'll use in VS9.

So the only thing missing is the capability, once the various scenes have been detected, to save each of them in a separate, stand alone video file (in batch mode, manually saving each of them is not an option). That's what "export" means for me.

Cheers,

El Furax