capturing, cutting, and deleting the rest

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indosmoke

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I've got a weird problem and can't solve this one as quick as i'd like. I' have a lot of footage, with limited space. I'm trying to capture, store what i need and get rid of the rest. Alot of my tapes were not shot with a time code which begins my problem. I try to make each clip into a file, then delete the main one which ive captured to save a tonne of space. But of course when i do that, everything dissapears. I' really can't solve this one guys....

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you beat me to it, but i'm not really sure how this is done. i'm using Adobe 6.5, lacking a time code and having trouble trimming as they say.

Ty
 
Professor Chaos is Right! You need to put the footage you want on the timeline (with the excess cut off), then file>export>movie and save as a new file. Once it is done rendering, you can erase the old one.
 
indosmoke,
Take a look at a capture program called scenalyzer ( www.scenalyzer.com ) and will help you solve this problem. I use it instead of PPro's capture facility. While capturing, you can click a button to start a new file at any time. Once it's capture on disk, it gives the ability to trim files down or split them into multiple clips. Lots of other features. Very fast.

It's a shareware problem and well worth the $40 imho. You can download a trial copy to check it out first.

-Dan
 
Dan,

Do you use Primier 6.5 or Ppro 1.5.1? Just curious how you think Scenalyzer Live compares to the Adobe capture utility in 1.5?
 
ChuckS said:
Dan,

Do you use Primier 6.5 or Ppro 1.5.1? Just curious how you think Scenalyzer Live compares to the Adobe capture utility in 1.5?
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I used the Adobe facility in 6.5 and was happy. I seem to recall that the capture with PPro 1.0 was a real step backward; couldn't even keep the tape rolling at a constant speed. That's when I switched to Scenalyzer and tried the PPro facaility since. Maybe the problems are worked out.

Still, now that I've been using Scenalyzer, I find it much more flexible. I do projects that involve hundreds of clips. With scenalyzer, I can quickly scan and scrub through a directory with hundreds of clips and look for the ones I want without having to either play them one at a time in a media player or loading them into PPro and try to look through them while PPro is trying to conform the audio on every stinking one.

Sometimes I get tapes that have no timecode. I can capture the whole tape to disk as one big file and then in scenalyzer I can quickly cut up the file into individual clips and delete what I don't want. It does this nondistructively until you tell it to commit the changes. Then it goes off and does the changes in batch.

You can use it to simply pull single frames out as a jpeg or bitmap file simply by hitting the F2 key.

It has a feature that I don't use regularly but it saved my bacon just a few weeks ago. It will scan an entire miniDV tape in about 5 minutes and build an index of clips on the tape. You then simply check a box on the clips you want and then have it do a batch capture. It efficiently fast-forwards when it can to the next requested clip. You can save the index for later reference and capture.

In my case, I had lost an entire directory structure of clips that had taken 16-20 hours to capture. I only needed to recover maybe 50 clips out of all that footage and I had a deadline in two days. I indexed the tapes with scenalyzer, identified the clips I needed and did a batch capture. I made my deadline. :grin:

-Dan
 
so heres a q about this program which i downloaded a trial version for. I did an index, batch capture. and of course imported it to premiere 6.5 however everything needs to be de-interlaced or it is extremely distorted in a strange way. What about the str8 capture method? I've just started and haven't really play with or figured it out to get the clips to the exporting stage.
 
its creating a distorted ripple effect once i import it into premiere 6.5

strange stuff, how can one import files to specified settings like frame rate, NDF etc. or can u do this in scenalyzer 4.0?
 
Not sure what the problem might be. Possibly a field order issue? How are you viewing the footage when you see this? What is the footage you're trying to import? It is DV, right? Scenalyzer, like I believe all DV capture programs, simply copies the DV data to disk. It doesn't render it. So if it's standard DV video, the capture program doesn't need to know what the frame rate is. It's up to your NLE to properly interpret the footage once it's been copied from tape to disk.

The capture options can be found from the File->Options menu selection. There's also a manual that you can download. If you're using Premiere, be sure that scenalyzer is set to write a AVI Type 2 file type.

-Dan
 
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