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Creating ‘smooth’ clips using scene detect
I posted a thread yesterday and was helped enormously by the quick answers of Jeff Pulera.
In addition to his replies, I have another question, and I hope it’s no problem to post it here again in a new thread.
After figuring out how to use scene detect to create single clips instead of an hour long footage from MiniDV tapes, I am wondering if it’s possible that PP CS5 automatically trims these trips. Say, for instance, that it leaves out the first and last second of the original clip when capturing it from the camera.
The main issue for asking this is that I hope to create ‘smooth’ clips, and with my camera handling the first and/or last half a second or so usually gets distorted because of pressing the record button. So I would want to leave these out, while using scene detect.
Is this possible in CS5 or is there another quick way to establish this, without having to export and re edit every clip (which alledgedly also causes quality loss)?
Thanks again for any answers, and my apologies for the many questions I’m putting on these forums.
Regards, Stef
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4 Replies
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That is called editing, part of the job.
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I don’t mind the editing involved, I mind the supposed quality loss while exporting. Therefore I’d rather keep the original clips in my database, preferably smoothly cut, than exporting them into the database. But from your post I understand that automatically ‘smoothening’ the scenes is not possible, right?
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Stef, the only way to capture the clean clips is to manually set the IN and OUT points, very tedious, then having Premiere capture all the clips one at a time, which wears out the camera, shuttling back and forth.
Unless you must send “clean clips” to someone else, leave them as is and just trim when you edit, as mentioned by Ann. This is how it works for the rest of us
Jeff
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Thanks Jeff, that clears up my question. I’m delighted with the scene detect button as it allows me to keep the original quality as mentioned before. And from there, the editing starts!
Undoubtedly I’ll be back in a later stage with more questions, but I just want to say this forum is amazing, and many other questions I had before were answered by browsing through the threads. Hopefully I’ll be able to help others at some point as well. Thanks for now!
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