Help with scene detection in DV capture

OCVQ wrote on 8/18/2013, 5:15 PM
I have Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0b. I am trying to capture my old Hi-8 tapes. "Enable DV scene detection" is checked in the capture preferences, but regardless of whether I use the "capture video" or the "capture tape" feature... it continues to capture one continuous clip unless I intervene. Any suggestions? I don't really want to end up with one 2-hour clip to edit. (I read in another post something about using the scene splitting feature on my captured clips but I can't find that option anywhere. Perhaps it's a feature only available in a more recent version of the program???)

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musicvid10 wrote on 8/18/2013, 5:28 PM
Hi-8 is analog, not DV. Scene detection in Vegas doesn't work with that.
What kind of capture card are you using? Vegas is only designed to work with 1394 Firewire, so if you got it working with something else, you're lucky.
OCVQ wrote on 8/18/2013, 5:44 PM
Okay, that makes sense. Dang. It's been so long since I used this old camera and since the tapes say "Digital 8 / Hi8" I wasn't thinking analog. I am using a 1394 firewire cable and have selected "Microsoft DV camera and VCR" as the video source, so I was thinking it's digital!! Thanks for your help.
johnmeyer wrote on 8/18/2013, 6:17 PM
The original Scenalyzer had optical scene detection that you could run on a single AVI file. It was very useful for creating scenes from VHS or Hi8 transfers. Andi (the author) has shut down the Scenalyzer project, and what you want is the original free Scenalyzer, and NOT the SCLive version. I think the original is still available here:

Scenalyzer

I also have several AVISynth scripts that work even better for detecting scenes bases on big changes in the video content.

Be forewarned that any optical scene detection is easily fooled if someone enters the scene in the foreground of a static shot, or if the camera pans rapidly.