What did I forget?

Opampman wrote on 3/21/2008, 3:25 PM
I think I've had this problem before and someone gave me a quick answer, but as I approach retirement (next Friday), my memory is not what it use to be.

Here's my problem. I am capturing HDV footage and the scenes are split as they should be. A new thumbnail is generated for each scene in the media pool. But, when I double click or drag the captured scene to the timeline, all the scenes come with each thumbnail. They are separate but linked together, so it's no problem to delete the unwanted scene. It's just a PITA. What tick box have I missed?

Also - for those who haven't tried, burning HD to a standard DVD from the timeline is GREAT! I used the 25mbs Blu-Ray template and the footage looks fantastic (played on the amazing PS3). What's the max time on a standard DVD for the HD footage burned from the Vegas timeline? (I'm too lazy to do the math)

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blink3times wrote on 3/21/2008, 4:12 PM
"Here's my problem. I am capturing HDV footage and the scenes are split as they should be. A new thumbnail is generated for each scene in the media pool. But, when I double click or drag the captured scene to the timeline, all the scenes come with each thumbnail. They are separate but linked together, so it's no problem to delete the unwanted scene. It's just a PITA. What tick box have I missed?"

The only thing I can think of is that you have them all highlighted. When your media pool first shows up after an import/capture, it defaults with them all highlighted, so if you drag one, you drag them all. I usually click one of them to kill the highlighting and then re-highlight only the ones I want.

As for max time.... couldn't tell you for sure, but I'm working on one now that's 62 minutes. Of course I haven't tried to fit it on the disk yet [as he says with nervousness in his voice].... but I would think that at 15M... I'm pushing the limit on this one.
Steve Mann wrote on 3/21/2008, 6:23 PM
I haven't tried it with HDV, but in SD you can in theory put several hours of SD on a single DVD-5 if you set your bit rate really low. The quality sucks, but it's the average bit rate that determines the size of the files on the DVD.
Opampman wrote on 3/21/2008, 8:23 PM
Unfortunately, they are not all highlighted. But each thumbnail brings all the clips to the timeline. Even more strange, if I right click and select "open in trimmer" each thumbnail, no matter what scene, only opens the first clip in the trimmer.
DGrob wrote on 3/21/2008, 8:39 PM
FWIW, I render to a Sony AVCHD *.m2ts file and burn to standard DVDs via Nero. The output plays beautifully on my 46" Sharp from a PS3! Doing the math gives me a projected 43 minute play time - although I've never approached that in a project.

Darryl