First Capture with Digital8 camcorder via firewire

donp wrote on 7/12/2003, 9:14 AM

Hi, I made my first capture of DV to DV footage into Vegas. All went well, Vegas controlled the camera and made a mostly faultless capture. My only question is why did Vegas capture what I thought was a single video with some starts and stops and pauses as 5 different clips in 11 minutes of video? Is this a time code thing with the stops in recording then resuming recording? is there a setting in the capture setup to make it capture a single clip that I missed when checking that out. The book says virtually nothing about capture. I'm new at the digital video thing having done analog for a long time. Any help here would be appreciated. I capture through a Canopus ADVC-1394 card with front bay via the DV 4 pin in/out on the front bay.

Thanks

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Chienworks wrote on 7/12/2003, 9:29 AM

Any time there is a break in the timecode, VidCap will detect this as a new scene and start a new clip. This should have coincided with your stops and starts.

Under Options / Preferences / Capture, uncheck Enable DV scene detection if you'd rather have one continuous clip.

Jessariah67 wrote on 7/12/2003, 9:30 AM

Vegas detects starts and stops and splits clips accordingly. Individual clips are much easier to organize and the feature saves you the time to divide & render individual clips.

If you really want it as one clip, select all in explorer and drag to the timeline -- you'll get all clips back-to-back in order, then you can render as a single .avi

Vegas will also split longer clips into sections -- every XXMB or GB. That setting can be changed.

donp wrote on 7/12/2003, 9:32 AM

Great. I would rather split at the stops while I edit, if I can see them and the split is needed. However I can understand the advantage of multiple clips too.