Capturing HDV with clips based on date of original recording.

FvL wrote on 12/23/2020, 11:44 AM

I try to capture HDV tapes on Hard Disk via FireWire into Vegas Movie Studio 16.0 Platinum on a Windows 10 computer.. I want to make clips based on the metadata of date of original recording, so not split on all individual shots, but grouped on same date only. Therefore I have deselected DV scene detection in the capture menu under options - preferences, but this works defectively. Often one clip covers multiple dates in one take. And this is not because the original recordings on one date are of a very short duration!

I tried alternative software like HDVSplit with ffdshow, but did not get this to work either.

I hope somebody can advise me, because I have rented a Canon HDV camera to archive all my HDV material in a short period, as my own Sony HDV camera has become defect.

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3POINT wrote on 12/23/2020, 1:31 PM

As far as I can remember HDVsplit can capture a complete HDVtape as one file. This file can be splitted again with HDVsplit to clips as the individual shots as they were taken. There is only scene detection, no date detection.

When you want to get a file for each separate date, you have to bring in those clips on the Vegas timeline and smartrender those clips to one new date based file.

FvL wrote on 12/23/2020, 1:51 PM

In HDVsplit there is an option to make clips according to date, but I could not manage to use this. The Vegas option works with the options I deseribed, but strangely enough not always!

3POINT wrote on 12/23/2020, 11:16 PM

No, HDVsplit has just a scene detection based on a change in date/time. It cannot split only on a change in date. HDV can name your clips according recorded date/time or number.

Musicvid wrote on 12/24/2020, 10:18 AM

You have always been able to turn off Scene Detection in Vegas Vidcap. It has not changed.

Import  into Vegas in synced chronological order is a different subject entirely. It depends on intact freerun SMPTE timecode in the first frame of every tape roll; in other words, wishful thinking.

FvL wrote on 12/25/2020, 4:37 AM

Thanks for all your quick reactions! I have been using the same method as Musicvid. Maybe getting several clips from one tape is due to the fact that there have been stops/stills or pauses in the original recording. But the SMPTE on the tape was intact as one run only. Or are there additional conditions to mark in the capture menu's?

Musicvid wrote on 12/25/2020, 9:04 AM

If it is not a multicam project with slaved freerun timecode, then just naming the saved output sequentially should work for you as does importing anything in Windows. Good luck.