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johnmeyer wrote on 1/8/2006, 10:26 AM
Looks very useful, if it works.

I read somewhere in this forum that Vegas chokes if you feed it large numbers of m2t files. Is this still true? If so, a better choice may be to generate scene markers. I've discovered a way to do this using the Scenalzyer index feature. Basically, you set you camera to output DV, tell Scenalyzer to index the tape (takes 5 minutes for a full tape) and then export the Scenalyzer HTML file that contains the scene list. Use Excel or an HTML editor to copy the scene start timecodes and then paste this into the Edit Details (Markers) window. Its a little bit of a kludge, but you get the scenes in almost no time, and still get to work with a single m2t file (which makes using proxies or intermediaries much easier).
Wes C. Attle wrote on 1/8/2006, 9:31 PM
I use loads of .m2t files all the time. No problems for me. Scene splitting captured video of any format should be a standard part of any NLE.... This Scene Splitter tool is awesome by the way! Used it on over 4 hours of HDV so far.
johnmeyer wrote on 1/8/2006, 10:44 PM
Never understood why Vegas capture never offered the option of capturing scenes into a file that could be imported as markers. You could capture with one big file, which is far easier to manage than hundreds of individual scene files, and yet still be able to mark the scenes. I already have a simple script that lets you split events at markers, so you could still easily slice up the single capture file within Vegas. Would make things go far faster because, even with DV, Vegas does slow down if you feed it hundreds of AVI files.