Auto-Find Edits

[Shane Ross]

I don’t understand you. A clip doesn’t have a cut point until you add one. How can FCP auto-find something that doesn’t exist until you add it? What, in your mind, is a “cut point?”

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[Jason Mckee]

Say you import a movie that is already cut together. I thought read somewhere along time ago that FCP or a similar editor could go through and find the cuts or edits and make a cut at those points automatically. I have never seen such a function but I thought I read something on it. I know I read that either Avid or FCP could look through clips and find the hole punch at the end and beginning of reels after you’ve received the scanned footage.

[Jerry Hofmann]

There is a feature that takes advantage of DV’s time of day code in a long capture from DV tape (putting a marker where the camera was paused), but there’s not a way to do this with other than a DV camera master in FCP. There might be some third party software out there that will do this though. Have you googled around for it?

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[Jon Smitherton]

Think HDV does automatically and DV does it if you select clip in browser Mark>DV start/stop detect. For other sources you can use:

https://www.scene-detector.com/

could be quite handy; then again good to go through shots and trim as you have to have a look at what you’ve got at some stage.

Jon

[Nick Meyers]

yeah, i’ve used scene detector in the past.
i’ve also tried the scene detection in CatDV.

scene detector was better for me,
but neither work 100%.
sometimes they miss subtle scene changes, sometimes they erroneously add scene changes in shots with lots of motion.

it takes a while to get the settings just so for your particular film.

given the set-up time, and the fact that i didn’t 100% trust the results and would check everything,
i wonder if it’s just as efficient to do it manually.

FWIW Scene Detector works by putting markers on the clip in FCP
CatDV gives you an EDL that you an import into FCP and you can then use the offline sequence as a guide.

nick

[Bouke Vahl]

there is also this:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/13/recut
(gives you an XML so you end up with a razored timeline)

However, no solution will be perfect.

Flash photography will be a problem, fast cam movements / zooms will be a problem, jump cuts will be a problem….

It’s tweaking the settings and hope for the best.
However, if you have found decent settings for your material, it is about 95 % accurate.

Bouke

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