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B_JM wrote on 12/14/2005, 7:28 PM
another one that is free - edit and split m2t files , without re-rendering

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=HDTVtoMPEG2


DTVtoMPEG2 is primarily an MPEG-2 transport stream editor. Editing is performed as a simple transport packet level cut & splice, which means the output has a transport stream discontinuity at the splice points. Different decoders handle discontinuities with different amounts of grace. You may experience audio and/or video break-ups at the discontinuities. If you need editing with no discontinuities in the output, check out VideoReDo.

HDTVtoMPEG2 can break the output into multiple file segments. It can strip unwanted programs and PIDs from the input, and it regenerates tables. It can optionally preserve the transport stream bit rate (to keep a constant bit rate stream as such).

HDTVtoMPEG2 can scan for commercials by detecting black pillarbox bars.
Laurence wrote on 12/14/2005, 8:59 PM
What I love about the one I linked is that it splits by timecode. Every time the camera stops then goes back into record, the timecode changes, and it will split the clips exactly at these points.
B_JM wrote on 12/15/2005, 6:45 PM
sounds like an excellent feature
filmy wrote on 12/16/2005, 1:37 AM
>>>Every time the camera stops then goes back into record, the timecode changes, and it will split the clips exactly at these points<<<

Are you sure you mean timecode and not date/time stamps? If the camera is really changing timecode each time it stops/pauses than something is very wrong.
farss wrote on 12/16/2005, 2:02 AM
Actually I'm not so certain that's correct, doesn't it depend on how the camera is setup to generate TC?
I'll admit I'm a bit foggy on this but there's a number of options on how TC is generated, Free Run and Regen are two that come to mind but certainly there is a way to create TC that tracks real time, this is very handy on multicam shoots, if you say leave one came recording continuously and stop start another one you can still sync the two using TC. This doesn't work for DV from memory, only DVCAM and above.
Certainly if you're running genlocked and you take the camera out and into record there'll be a break in the TC.
Bob.
Marco. wrote on 12/16/2005, 2:12 AM
The website says it's the timestamp not the timecode. This a quite bit different (as said before). All the scene splitters which use such kind of datas use the time stamp or "datacode" instead of the timecode.

There are only two or three consumer cameras which are able to have the timecode set to a freerun mode (whereas all the professional cameras can). So more than 90 percent of the consumer cameras wouldn't give you valuable footage for such a kind of scene detection if it would really use tc information.

Timestamp/datacode and timecode are terms which are mixed up very often.

Marco
Laurence wrote on 12/16/2005, 8:06 AM
Whatever it's doing, it splits my HVR-A1 clips perfectly.
filmy wrote on 12/16/2005, 8:09 PM
>>>doesn't it depend on how the camera is setup to generate TC?<<<

I think you answered yourself in the wording of the question. If the camera is generating TC it would be continuous. Most all consumer cameras work this way - you do not have any sort of choice. You just turn on the camera on and it lays down code. If you stop recording and start again with no gaps the TC is continious, however if you have a gap of any sort it would start as if it were a new tape. Pre-blacking tapes is what some people do however recording only in insert mode isn't really an option with consumer cams either so it is sort of a mute point.

The newly release DVX100B does offer an option for multi-cam shoot that will sync up via sending/recieving TC via firewire. In this case, and in any case where the scenerio is the same, there would have to be one master and all the rest would be slaves. The slaves would be taking in TC based on the master - but they would not be generating in that case, only regenerating the incoming TC in which case if one of the slaves stop recording there could be missing TC. However the concept is normally to have all camera always running unless there is a mag/tape change. Beyond that the only camera that might do stops and starts would be the roaming camera - "D" cam or whatever it might be.
Wes C. Attle wrote on 12/18/2005, 6:13 AM
This little HDV Split tool is great! No bugs. It chopped through my 40 minute .m2t file that I captured in Vegas today with no problems. It is really fast. I am so pleased to finally find something quick and dirty to solve this problem of splitting .m2t files.

MH_Stevens wrote on 12/18/2005, 10:43 AM
What method of spliting does Cineform use?