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Cheesehole wrote on 1/20/2003, 1:05 PM
good question. it would be a very cool feature, but it doesn't appear to be present in Vegas 4.

there is an alternative, which is to highlight segments of a file in the trimmer and hit R to make regions. be sure to name them. then hit the little Save icon in the trimmer window to save the regions. then go to the Explorer tab and enable the Region View using the drop-down. when you select the file, you will see all your regions listed by name. you can drag them up onto the timeline.

it works well, but it would be pretty cool to drop events in the bins. another alternative is to simply store those events on muted tracks, or in another project file which you can keep open in a separate instance of Vegas.
SonyEPM wrote on 1/20/2003, 1:30 PM
This will not be in V4.
mitteg wrote on 1/20/2003, 1:57 PM
Thanks cheesehole for your quick and helpful answer.

The truth is I have never needed such feature until now. I capture the video from my Sony TRV20 miniDV cam and I select "split to scenes" so I get a lot of video files and then I can sort them and put into the bins. No problem at all. But now, I have used the pass-trough function so I converted analog footage to digital and of course it doesn't have that "metadata" so I can't split into scenes.

What do you do when you're dealing with lots of footage ? And the footage it is not divided into separate files, there are huge AVI DV files. I do not like to do Batch capture because these means I have to play-pause-rewind-fastforward my camera and that's not good at all for its heads.

What would you do in my situation ? Switch to Avid Xpress ? haha just kidding. VV rocks !

Robert.
psg wrote on 1/20/2003, 10:08 PM
I had the same situation so I invested $33 in a nifty little program called Scenalyzer Live that can capture video to separate files using optical scene detection (as well as timecode changes) that works pretty well. I used it on an old Hi8 2 hour tape and it worked great. Then I fired up VV3 and did my editing.

Here's the site : http://www.scenalyzer.com/main.html

They have a try before you buy download so you can see how it works for you.
mitteg wrote on 1/21/2003, 1:24 AM
Does optical detection work well ? I haven't tried yet, how does it works ? How can the program know when I stopped to record without having the timecode ?

Thank you ! You know, sometimes I visit the Avid forum and they are beggining to talk about Vegas, wow, amazing.

Best Regards !