Shot detection on imported (not captured) footage?

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John Kary

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I am wanting to import an edited AVI into Premiere. Normally, if you drop this AVI on the timeline, it appears as one solid clip with no edit points.

Is there some way to do shot-detection on an imported clip and have each shot show up as an edit in the timeline? Right now I have to scrub through the footage and use the razor blade tool to make the edits. On long clips, this can take a long time.

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use the scource monitor to make your edits before dragging to the timline. that will only drag the selected portion of the clip in the scource monitor to the timline as a seperate clip. its easy because its just two shortcut keys to press to select your start and end points, and then you just drag to the timeline wher you want it. otherwise, if its a DV file, just export it out to a tape and then re-import it using scene detection. you wont lose any quality in doing so unless you have dropout issues from bad heads or something.
 
I understand where you're going with the source monitor editing, but I need every shot in the imported clip, so it's still going through and setting in/out points and assembling the timeline. You might as well just cut it in the timeline.

The DV tape suggestion would be a workable solution, but the time it takes to export to tape and reimport would take even more time than cutting it by hand :)

If Premiere doesn't have that type of functionality built in, I wonder if there is a script or plugin out there that could do this?
 
Google for "scenalyzer free". There is a free version of Scenalyzer that you can use to process a whole DV AVI and split into multiple AVIs by datestamp. I've used it successfully in the past for this purpose.
 
John Kary said:
I am wanting to import an edited AVI into Premiere.
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The above suggestions are great if we're talking about a DV AVI that's just a big long tape capture.

But John Kary has a DV AVI file that was rendered out of a video editor (probably Premiere), and is pulling that exported file in right? Does Premiere preserve the timestamp information in this situation (i.e. clips edited together on a timeline and exported)? I would have thought you'd lose that info, except maybe in situations with no effects applied so there's no DV recompression...?
 
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