Capturing Multiple Clips (multiple scenes)

[PimpDaddyDA]

Hi all...

I'm currently capturing many hours (80!) of footage to PPRO1.5

Question: Is there a way to capture an entire 1 hour mini dv tape into PPRO1.5 as one long clip, then, simply slice up in the computer into many single clips?

OR

Must I capture each clip (scene) from the mini dv, name it, save it, etc....

I'd like to be able to slice it up, and save each clip as it's own clip, and enter it into the project manager window. I know I can slice it up in the edit line... but where can I store it? The edit line will be very messy if I store clips there.


Seems like a large waste to "sit there" while downloading images into the computer, waiting for the next slate... then... click, click... and next scene...etc... then more waiting.....

it'd be nice to just let the tape run..... for the full amount, then slice and dice....

Thanks for your help,

Darryl Abbinante

[Sirius_Doggy]

Sounds like you should just do a scene detect capture.
It will automatically make a new clip at each point where the tape was paused.

[BLUESPIDER]

Question: Is there a way to capture an entire 1 hour mini dv tape into PPRO1.5 as one long clip, then, simply slice up in the computer into many single clips?

You better have lots of harddrive space..

I personally don't bother with the scene detect sirrus mentioned. I have about a Terabyte of HD space so a majority of the time I just capture the entire tape. Either or will work. I'm just lazy plus I have the space to do so..

[Sumfun]

Don't know about you, but I use about 13G per hour of video. So even 1TB of disk space isn't enough for 80 hours of video. Better use scene detect and delete the bad scenes.

[PimpDaddyDA]

I've got 3 - 300GB drives.... BUT... when I tried to use Scene Detect, the error came on: "Date/Time recorded not found on tape and is required for scene detection"

sooooo.... just dump the tape in one long Clip...

if so, then can I edit the long clip into smaller normal clips?

thanks again for your time...

Darryl

[Sirius_Doggy]

Pimp - not easily.
You could dump the entire tape, put in timeline then edit each "scene" you want to keep and put in it's own timeline and export as avi. Seems like a pain in the a$$ though. I'd pursue the scene detect method and figure out why you are getting the error.

[Shooter]

You are not getting time date stamp from the tape because it is not set as ON.(usually means the Clock is not setup in the camera)

You can capture in Prem Pro and clip out the scenes you wants. You do not have to create a timeline for each scene. Just put the work bar over the scene and Export that to a new clip (important Check option "Do not Recompress")

or

Use Scenalyzer that will scene detect using an alternate method apart from Time Darte Stamp.