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Earl_J wrote on 5/8/2009, 4:56 AM
Hello again Grig,
here again, in the editing stage, open the clip in the trimmer; select the piece you want, either by highlighting the video or the audio; once highlighted, hit the tab button, it will run through video and audio, video only, or audio only highlighting sequences. Stop where you want and drag that segment to the timeline.

Until that time... Earl J.
grig wrote on 5/8/2009, 5:18 AM
Thx Earl, but my question was about the moment when you capture from the HDV tape!
Any possibility to capture from tape only audio or only video?

thx!
;)
GriG
rs170a wrote on 5/8/2009, 5:52 AM
GriG, unfortunately it's not possible to do this.

Mike
farss wrote on 5/8/2009, 6:18 AM
It's very easy to achieve the same outcome though so I'm left wondering why one would have such a need.

I'd just capture both. If I only wanted the vision just delete the audio track. If I only wanted the audio render to a wav file and delete what I'd captured. Pretty much takes just as long.

Bob.
rmack350 wrote on 5/8/2009, 9:24 AM
Bob, I agree with you but I'll never be able to convince people here at our shop of it. They're used to importing a log into their edit system and specify whether to digitize Video, Audio1, Audio2, etc,etc. They've been doing it this way since the first day they captured from BetaSP over SDI, so you can imagine that the habit is locked in concrete after 15 years.

When we installed a set of PPro/Axio systems a few years ago they went through massive contortions to get PPro to digitize just video for selected clips. We had Adobe folks come here to talk about PPro and they were really bewildered that people would want this, or that they'd want separate audio tracks for a left and a right channel.

So, why would someone want it? Old habits, a familiar workflow, ill-conceived notions of storage savings, or maybe just taking advice from someone with too many years of experience.

I suppose another possible reason might be that there was a lot of embarrasing banter and a live mic during the non-audio takes of the shoot.

Back to the how instead of the why...I don't know what you can do with the HDV capture tool but there's a switch in the DV capture tool to turn off audio capture. I've never used it and don't even know if it works but it would turn off ALL audio capture, it doesn't work on a clip-by-clip basis.

Rob Mack