Monster HD transport filed

srg.steam wrote on 6/20/2007, 6:32 AM

I could use a bit of help. I now have an FX1 camera and a chum has another consumer HD Sony. We both find that the video streams captured after a gig are delivered to the PC as .m2t files, which we believe, are MPG2 (with extra I frames) in the transport format. Importing these off both cameras results in a single monster file with the entire gig in it, perhaps 300/400 clips. This is pretty hard to manage compared with the earlier SD discrete clips workflow. Is there a way to ‘explode’ this monster file? Vegas help warbles on about rendering to intermediate files but the info is a bit thin for a novice. I learned that there are some codecs for this (Cineform? built in?). Would that be going in the right direction?
Thanks

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Laurence wrote on 6/20/2007, 6:40 AM

There is a tab to select in the capture options that will split these clips on capture. The splitting is done by timecode however and if you never set your camera clock, it won't work and you'll get the one large file you are describing.

srg.steam wrote on 6/20/2007, 8:29 AM

Thanks for your assistance. The only tab I can find in the Capture utility sets a choice of Time-code Format and I chose SMPTE EBU (25fps) Note I am in the UK. That is all I can find in this very utilitarian Capture utility. It is the internal one for HD and I am still on Vegas 6.0c
Unfortunately this seems to make no difference. The file still comes over all stuck together as a monster .m2t The camera was set at the right time and date. I cannot find any other menu entry on the camera that relates to time or in Vegas except what format it displays on its events.(time-code, time, frame, none). This was set at time-code.

kkolbo wrote on 6/20/2007, 9:20 AM

Scene split for HDV came out in version 7.

srg.steam wrote on 6/23/2007, 3:00 AM

Thanks Guys, looks like there is an upgrade in my future.

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