How can I capture video without automatic scene splitting?

Ricardo-Talbot wrote on 10/13/2021, 10:08 AM

I use Movie Studio Platinum 15.0, and can successfully capture video from an HDV camera. However, the capture utility keeps splitting the scenes automatically. How can I capture the whole tape as one single video file?

Thanks in advance,

Ricardo

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Musicvid wrote on 10/13/2021, 3:17 PM

There is a setting to turn off scene detection, which is on by default.

3POINT wrote on 10/14/2021, 7:33 AM

Ricardo-Talbot wrote on 10/14/2021, 9:44 AM

I hecked the box, but I keep ending up with 3 files instead of one:

That is much less than the actual number of scenes, but still annoying...

Any ideas?

3POINT wrote on 10/14/2021, 1:58 PM

@Ricardo-Talbot You're sure that your HDVtape is recorded without gaps or interruptions? As soon as there's a hick up in your tape, Vegas will start a new file while capturing.

I always used the free programme HDVsplit to capture HDV tapes, it can capture your whole HDVtape as one file or as splitted files, or splits the one file capture afterwards if necessary.

Ricardo-Talbot wrote on 10/14/2021, 2:45 PM

@3POINT, I think you nailed it 😉. There seems to be a "hickup" at every splice done by the Video Capture function. I will try HDVSplit.

Thanks!

3POINT wrote on 10/15/2021, 3:33 AM

@3POINT, I think you nailed it 😉. There seems to be a "hickup" at every splice done by the Video Capture function.

To get just one file of the three already captured files, you can put those files on the VMS timeline and render it to Mpeg2 HDV, which is lossless because it doesn't need recompression: