Logging Tape

cwbird wrote on 2/21/2004, 6:32 PM

I've imported about 20 minutes of raw tape to MS using capture, but it didn't detect scene changes to help log the shots. Did I miss a setting to have this happen automatically? If I did, what's the easiest way to log one large clip to many smaller clips in the media pool?

cb

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 2/21/2004, 6:55 PM

What did you use as your input device? If it was a firewire connection to a miniDV camcorder, the scenes are detected from the timecode on the tape. Every time you start and stop your camera it will log a scene. If you were taping something like a play and just let the camera roll for 20 minutes with continuous timecode then you will only get one long clip. If it was an analog device then there is no timecode so don’t get any scene detection.

~jr

cwbird wrote on 2/21/2004, 7:00 PM

I'm using a sony 350 digital 8 camera...and capturing through the ilink connection and cable on the camera and the sony vaio computer. The material consisted of numerous shot of my son fishing with me starting and stopping the camera between shots, but when importing, just hitting capture and letting the camera go.

merkelck wrote on 2/22/2004, 7:44 AM

You need to check the settings in the Capture Mode. From the capture screen, go to OPTIONS> PREFERENCES. Notice here that the GENERAL tab and the CAPTURE tab have the same text for each box. This is a bug recognized by Sony. You need to make sure that the first box of the CAPTURE tab is selected. What the text should say is "Enable DV Scene detection". You can find the "real" text for the CAPTURE tab in the Help files. Print that out and keep it for future reference until Sony fixes this. You should also check that the second box of the GENERAL tab is selected that says "Enable DV device control".
Hope this helps
Kent

cwbird wrote on 2/22/2004, 8:55 PM

I've got the correct boxes clicked, but I'm wondering if the scene detection doesn't work with the digital 8 format and only true dv format. In absence auto scene detection, does anyone know how to copy selection sections of longer clips and get them into the media pool?

cb

Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/23/2004, 6:17 AM

I use Digital 8 and scene detection works perfectly.

In fact, as far as your computer is concerned, it can't tell the difference between Digital 8 and DV.

There must be another issue.

djcc wrote on 2/23/2004, 6:30 AM

You are using a Digital 8 camera, but was the tape shot in that camera, or is it an older 8mm or hi-8 tape shot in a non-digital camera? If the latter, I do not think scene detection works.

cwbird wrote on 2/23/2004, 12:29 PM

Digital 8 tape...does the 4pin to 4pin connector matter...do I need to use the 4 pin to six pin?

cb

cwbird wrote on 2/24/2004, 5:09 PM

Thanks for your help. After carefully reading the responses, I remembered I had never set the clock time on my new digital 8 camcorder. I set the time, and now it works wonderfully.

cb