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Capture in HDV with Sony Vegas pro 8
Hi,
I tried to search before posting this, but couldn’t get the right answer to my situation. So writing this.I am able to capture video from my mini dv tapes from Canon HV30 in HDV mode. But, I found there are “tons” of clips stored on my external hard disk. Each clip (.m2t file) size is about 5 Mb. I verified in my capture Preferences window “Enable HDV Scene Selection” check box is checked. I saw there are 750 files capturedfor a 60 min tape. It is difficult to manage so many files when you drag them on to time line on my video track.
Based on my prev experience with DV format, I used to get a few clips of each around 700mb to 1 Gig.
I tried by disabling the check box for “Enable HDV Scene Selection”, still same thing.
Is there a better way or what is the recommended way to capture in HDV format? What should be the capture preferences?
I see there is “Preroll seconds as 5”. Don’t know what this is. Also, “Max RAM buffer size” is 25%.
Is this how everyone captures the HDV video? If I want to capture in DV format (720×480)? what are the recommended settings? I appreciate your quick response. Thanks.
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I turn off scene detection and capture as one m2t file. I don’t know why your getting many small files. HDVSplit is a free HDV capture utility you can try. To capture in DV, I have to set my camera to downconvert to DV and capture as if the camera was a DV camera. Hope this helps. Danny Hays
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