Did the enable HDV scene detection get fixed?

Cooldraft wrote on 1/5/2010, 9:29 AM

I am trying to capure an entire HDV tape using internal capture...NO SCENE Detection, no create new file when tape is stopped. The internal capture app is splitting "tape-stops" into new files.

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/5/2010, 10:09 AM

The term "tape-stops" is ambiguous in your post. Are you referring to stopping the tape while recording thus creating a new scene, or stopping the tape while capturing which will always create a new file. If you have "Enable HDV scene detection" unchecked, you should not get separate scenes each time you stopped recording on the tape.

What may happen is that the HDV capture utility will randomly create a new file for no apparent reason and usually in the middle of a scene. That bug is not fixed as far as I know.

~jr

Cooldraft wrote on 1/5/2010, 11:18 AM

The videographer stopped several times during the taping of a commercial (typical). But my workflow has always been scope (review) the full tape. Maybe I should change. The enable HDV detection is not checked and several files are still being produced by the internal app.

How do you pros edit hdv then, if the Vegas app creates new m2t files

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/5/2010, 11:44 AM

> How do you pros edit hdv then, if the Vegas app creates new m2t files

I purchased a Sony HVR-DR60 Hard Disk Recording Unit for my Sony HVR-Z1U and I don't bother with capturing tapes anymore. Once you experience a tapeless workflow there is no going back. I just shot a 2 hr concert last week and when I got home, I plugged my DR60 into my PC and 20 min later I was editing footage instead of ingesting tapes for 2 hrs. It is the bees knees.

When I use my Sony HVR-A1U I do use tapes but usually I get whole files captured with just the occasional break. As long as there are no frames lost I usually just place the files on the timeline and keep editing. If there are lost frames I'll recapture that small part but I use tape so rarely that it doesn't bother me.

~jr

Christian de Godzinsky wrote on 1/5/2010, 11:49 AM

Hi,

The scene capture is still (!!!) broken. Ok, but you didn't select it....

The HDV capture might sometimes split the file even if no scene detection is selected. This happens if the file becomes too big (?), and definitively if your captured tape is not continuous (blank gaps or discontinued timecode betheen scenes). I have personally never seen the HDV capture split without no reason. Again, this does not mean that I would not believe it can happen. But why? That I cannot answer...

Play back on your cam those passages where the split occurs. Does the picture freeze or turn briefly into blue. That is usually an indication that the CAM has not been able to continue the recording properly so that the timecode is not continuous. This CAN happen if you turn off your cam WITHOUT first stopping the recording properly. I guess that might be your problem.... But just my 2 cents...

Christian

ChipGallo wrote on 1/5/2010, 1:37 PM

Increase the Capture Max RAM buffer size to 80%. See:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=674935

I once knew how to create live links but not any more ...

Cooldraft wrote on 1/6/2010, 9:33 AM

I think that I found a temp solution....I have HDV tapes, there is no hard drive involded at the acquisition site, thus I have to capture HDV. I tried Premiere and it does what I need (at least in the first minute of capture). Is there any down fall of using a mpeg from Premiere to edit in Vegas? I thought that I would ask before I get knee deep into this and find out otherwise.