Splice two M2T files together into one?

Brainwrek wrote on 10/12/2005, 11:51 PM
Hello. I'm having NO luck in capturing my HDV. This really sucks.

It keeps cutting up my tapes into multiple scenes, but in totally random spots. Like right in the middle of a sentence. Places where there wasn't a scene break at all. And so I rewind the tape and try it again and the next time the breaks are in totally different places. It's so erratic and unpredictable, I can't believe it. I'm having this trouble with 2 separate tapes. Two of my other tapes worked fine, but I've tried these others about 4 times each, and they screw up every time.

Anyway... what I want to know is if there's a way to splice two M2T files together into a single M2T. I've looked all through the program and I can't see any way to render multiple clips into a single M2T.

I'm astonished that I can't do something as simple as capture an hour of HDV to my hard drive. It's ridiculous.

BTW... I'm getting the same strange results with Cineform's HDLink software.

If it matters, here's my tech specs:
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Dual Xeon 3.6Ghz
2MB RAM
Dedicated 7200RPM hard drive
Sony MovieStudio 6 Platinum
Sony HDR-HC1

Comments

jimmyz wrote on 10/13/2005, 6:52 AM
not sure if this is what you're looking for but
drag files to timeline and butt together and select render to new track
under tools and it will make one clip.
Joseph Sassone wrote on 4/11/2006, 4:03 AM
I have the same problem, six months after Brainwrek's post. What's the deal with this? Is this a bug? How do you force Movie Studio to capture HDV as one file, and not as a bunch of random chunks?
IanG wrote on 4/11/2006, 6:43 AM
How big are the "chunks"? This post may be useful.

Ian G.
Joseph Sassone wrote on 4/11/2006, 7:38 AM
The chunks are pretty much random in size, and the drive is already NTFS, but thanks anyway.

Anyone have any other idea/insight? This is driving me crazy... I'm using HDVSplit instead at the moment, but I'd kinda like to use this $129 piece of software for what I bought it for...

I guess M2T files generated by HDVSplit will have the same quality anyway, but it's still not an acceptable situation.

Joel
Spot|DSE wrote on 4/11/2006, 8:08 AM
Vegas' capture utility doesn't do a great job of splitting files at start/stop points. Most tools don't, unfortunately.
No matter what "capture" app you're using, the quality is the same. It's just a data transfer; nothing is happening to the data..
Joseph Sassone wrote on 4/11/2006, 8:54 AM
OK, well, that's good to hear, anyway.

Actually, HDVSplit likes to crash. I really wish there was some way to capture with Vegas Movie Studio without it randomly chopping the file into pieces...
Joseph Sassone wrote on 4/11/2006, 12:18 PM
So is there no way to force Vegas Movie Studio Platinum to capture a HDV tape to a single file?