How to split my imported movie scenes?

Ptero wrote on 10/19/2005, 8:07 PM

I just bought Vegas 6 Platinum and I have a question:

I've used other video editors (VideoWave 7, Magix Edit Pro 10 and Pinnacle Studio Plus 10 - all of which have severe problems) and all of these have the ability to scan a long section of footage from my camera and break it into scenes automatically, either using the time codes or by looking for sudden changes in frame brightness/colour.

I don't see a similar feature in Vegas so I'm thinking it has a different way to do the same basic job, but I don't see anything in the tutorials or help. I guess I'm just missing it but if anyone here could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

As an example, I have a 10-minute file that contains about seven scenes taken at different times, so I'd like to break out each scene into its own event.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 10/19/2005, 8:16 PM

Vegas Movie Studio Platinum will split the scenes automatically. If it's not doing so, then you need to:
a-set the date/time on your camera
or
b-enable scene detection in Options/Preferences/General in your Video Capture application.

Ptero wrote on 10/20/2005, 5:42 AM

I should have made myself clearer; the footage is already on file on disk (the capture application doesn't do a very good job of splitting so I disabled scene detection during capture, assuming that the editor software would let me do this during the import from file). My question is really, can Vegas scan the disk file after the capture.

I still have the original footage on tape so I'll try re-enabling the splitting in the capture app and then retry the capture - maybe I can set up the capture parameters so that it does it better. If I can get it to work the way I need, that's a better solution for me anyway.

jetdv wrote on 10/20/2005, 6:41 AM

My question is really, can Vegas scan the disk file after the capture.

No. You either have to split during capture OR manually split it afterwards. You can always drop it on the timeline and press "S" between the scenes. Or you can drop regions or markers in the trimmer. There's several ways to do this.

Ptero wrote on 10/20/2005, 7:41 AM

That's good enough. If I can't set up the capture to do it better, I'll do it manually. Thanks.