Scene detection and separate clips

sunshineyday wrote on 5/6/2009, 12:54 PM
I'm having problems with scene detection automatically splitting into separate avi files.

I did a new install of Movie Studio 9 and began capturing old 8mm tapes. All was flawless after capturing two tapes. Using the DV capture, the tapes were snipped up into separate clips appropriately and saved to my hard drive.

Then, I took a look at the size of the files, what was left on my hard drive and realized I didn't have the space for all of the tapes. So... I bought a big external hard drive and moved the project files over there.

Started trying to capture the next tape (tape #3), and it did not split the scenes into separate clips - instead, I have one huge .avi file. Checked the capture settings (Enable DV scene detection is checked) and tried again. Same result for tapes #4 & #5 - one single clip in one giant AVI file.

I've also tried:
- checking and unchecking DV scene detection
- restoring default settings
- starting a new project and capturing back to internal hard drive

I've read that the original camera must have had date/time set, but these tapes are all from the same camera so I dont' think that is the problem.

Any ideas on what I've done to stop automatic scene detection and separate clips?

Comments

jetdv wrote on 5/7/2009, 6:36 AM
Was the clock set on the camera that taped tapes 3, 4, and 5?

If the clock is not set, it will not split screens. It uses jumps in the date/time code to determine where the breaks should be.
sunshineyday wrote on 5/8/2009, 10:04 AM
That must be it. I've tried Tape #1 again and it scene split just fine. Insert another old tape - (call it #6) and no scene split.

New question - what's my best option for splitting these 25 gig AVI files that are 2 hours long? I'd really prefer a splitter that would break them up into separate AVI files, rather than manually scene split inside VMS. Any freeware out there that will do this, or am I looking at $$ for new software?

Thanks for your help.
jetdv wrote on 5/8/2009, 10:30 AM
You might take a look at Scenalyzer which can do optical scene detection.