VS Newbie - DV Video Capture - Help!

[billyjk]

Trevor,
Did my first full capture today - a 2-hour tape. Worked perfectly, except although I checked the "Split Scene" option, I just got one 26gb file.
Any ideas why?
-bk

[lata]

Hi
as far as i know the scenes are set by the camera when we press the record button start and stop recording
If the recording was continuous then there will only be the one scene.

Otherwise it may be the camera that did not support scenes, Just not sure about that.
Do the controls below the preview screen control the camera to Play, fast forward / back etc.

You can stop capture at any time to capture smaller file sizes.
I used to do a 15 minute capture, 4 captures per tape, then my recordings were 1 hour per tape.

You can also set the clock to record a particular time duration

[billyjk]

Trevor,
Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes - the on-screen controls remotely control the camera. All seems fine there.

It might be the case that I"ll just take my 2-hour capture and cut it up myself using the edit function. I could use to tag the scenes anyway for future reference.

Thanks again!
-bk

[lata]

Does the recording look as though its in one shoot or has the record button been pressed a few times.

Asik mentioned Split by Screen within the timelines, that should work, its process is similar to using the scissors to create clips it will not split the actual file on the hard drive
If you wish to do that you would have to render the clips to a new video file, File Save Trimmed video would do that
If there is a lot of frames to delete then it may be worth the time to cut and render

Once you have separate clips / copies of the entire movie you can delete the original 26Gb file

[billyjk]

Thanks again Trevor!

Yes - my capture is one long 2-hour continuous AVI.

There are many scenes in that 2-hour block, but they are all end-to-end with fade-outs and fade-in's with a few seconds of timestamp on the video - so there's little/no frames to drop between scenes.

I still have to explore the Split by Scenes in total. It appears that the checkbox for Split by Scenes that I checked prior to Capture did nothing for me, but that there's a post-capture Split by Scenes function that I can do to the AVI file once captured. This is what I believe you are referring to in the previous post.

It's a beautiful day out right now, so I have to get to yard work. But tomorrow looks like a rainy day - a good day to explore VS and get this 2-hour AVI cut-up into separate files.