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Capturing video
Every time I capture my video’s it captures it all as one scene, how do I get scene detection to work.
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You need to turn on scene detection. The way you do it is different depending on whether you are capturing DV or HDV:
For DV it’s Options | Preferences | Capture | Enable DV scene detection.
For HDV it’s Prefs | General | Enable HDV scene detection.
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I’m using mini dv and the “Enable DV scene detection” box is checked, do I need to uncheck it?
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Ummm, if the box is checked, it’s turned on.
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would there be some thing in the camera causing it?
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Set the CLOCK in the camera. Clip breaks are based on jumps in the date/time code and the clock must be set for that to work.
Edward Troxel
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Edward,
As I read down this thread I was waiting for someone to mention the camera clock. When I saw your name I knew it would be there. But I have another question. I have a PD 150 (Thats the prior version of the PD170 for you youngsters out there) I found recently that I could not do scene capture and I knew the problem usually that it was because the camera clock was not set. I checked and sure enough it was not set, which seemed strange since I knew I had set it. So I set it. Next time I used the camera I had the same problem. Not only was the clock not set but it had defauilted to DVcam which I don’t use and a couple of other settings were changed. So I reset the settings and the clock and went about using the camera. But my battery went low so I switched out batteries and low and behold the settings had reverted back to no time set and the other settings had reverted also. It would appear that the internal (?) battery that holds the settings when you remove power from the camera had gone bad. (My guess). The owners manual states that there is a vanadium-lithium battery that serves this purpose but never mentions where it is or how (or if) it can be changed. It does say that it can go dead if youdon not use the camera for an extended period of time and that it needs to be recharged and gives instructions that to recharge it you should leave the camera connnected to house current with the AC adapter and the power switch turned off for 24 hours or more. I have done that and it still does the same thing.
Finally my question: Does anyone know where the suspect battery is and how to get to it?
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After reading your reply I started to think that might have been my case as well, but after setting the time and swapping out a couple of batteries I shot a football game today I went home and started capturing it to see if it was going to mark each scene. Turns out it was because of the date, each scene was marked and spliced. But I never turned off the date it has always been on so may be my internal battery is getting low and I need to plug it in and charge it for 24 hours. It really sucks having to splice a wedding from start to finish, that makes the project a whole lot harder to get finish in timely manner. Is there a warning in the cameras that gives an indication if its getting low? If not this would be a helpful tool to have in the camera. I love my Sony PD150 and my PD170, and Vgeas pro 8 is awsome.
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I know my canon’s have a “watch” style battery that needs to be changed periodically. That battery maintains the clock when the regular battery is not there. Sounds like you may need to change the internal battery.
Edward Troxel
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Alittle research showed me that the battery is oon an internal board and not readily user accessable. I saw a post from someone who said they send their unit to Amatos in NY and had the battery replaced and the inside cleaned and lubricated for about $200.00. If price is true, doesn’t sound too bad. Think I’ll look into it.
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