Auto scene detection not working

dmcmeans wrote on 7/12/2002, 3:21 PM

I captured a tape and scene detection worked great. I then captured another tape, and scene detection isn't happening. The check box for scene detection is checked. Is there anything else that could influence this process?

David

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SonyDennis wrote on 7/12/2002, 7:48 PM

Yes, your camera needs to be writing date/time stamps for scene detection to work. Make sure the clock/calendar is set before you shoot. Scene detect will not do anything with analog pass-though either.
///d@

wcoxe1 wrote on 7/13/2002, 11:19 PM

For Analogue pass-through, since VV3 doesn't have the optical scene detect that some other NLEs have, the only real solution ( if you want to stay withing VV3 ) is to walk your way through the ONE BIG SCENE, pressing S a LOT!

I like VV3, but sometime I am tempted by other systems because of this obvious lack. When even $70 packages have analogue pass through detection down to an art, it seems that VV3 would, too.

BD wrote on 7/14/2002, 9:48 AM

I agree that "optical" scene detection would be a good addition to VV's feature set.

I've been procrastinating the editing of 30 old Hi8 tapes (using my Digital8 VCR), until I have a DV capture solution (Scenealyzer Live?) that can detect scenes without referencing the time code.