Scene Capture Exist?

cz9h3d wrote on 9/18/2003, 9:06 PM
I'm a current Studio user (hold the comments, please) considering a move to Video Factory. I'm a little confused regarding capturing and trimming in VF 3.0. Is there no option to scene or timecode capture so I don't just get one big clip per tape? Also, if I'm forced to manually trim clips do I just do it though a "shift-drag" on the timeline?

I figure I have to be missing something here....

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Former user wrote on 9/18/2003, 9:57 PM
Under the CAPTUREpreferences, you can select SCENE DETECT. In VF it only detects by Time/Date stamp on DV. If you are capturing analog, or did not stop your camera, it will not detect scenes. There is no Scene Detect by content.

Dave T2

I still use Studio too. I also use VF and Vegas Videos. They all have their uses.
IanG wrote on 9/19/2003, 2:34 AM
>Also, if I'm forced to manually trim clips do I just do it though a "shift-drag" on the timeline?

You can use the trimmer, but I think most people just put the cursor where they want to make the cut, type "s" to split it and then remove (or just move) the unwanted bit. Because you can deal with the audio and video separately it makes J and L cuts trivialy simple.

Ian G.
DouglasClark wrote on 9/26/2003, 8:15 AM
Scenalyzer Live (www.scenalyzer.com/index.html) capture tool will do it. See related thread on this in the Vegas forum: "Scenalyzer vs scenalyzer, what is the difference?" Among other things, that thread gives a link to download "Freeware Scenalyzer Optical Scene Detection". I just downloaded it but haven't tried it yet.

Douglas Clark
JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/26/2003, 4:06 PM
I’ve used Scenalyzer to cut up the long AVI files that Studio captures and it works great (and it’s free). Studio makes one big AVI file an uses a .scn file to hold the scenes so its unusable by any other program. Scenalyzer solves this problem nicely. For DV I just capture with VideoFactory or Vegas and it cuts the AVI up based on timecode.

~jr