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Managing Long Clips
Right now I have captured an analog video through my capture card. Now
I have a video from an old VHS that is approx. 1 hour long. Is there a
way to take this hour long video and cut it into small 30 second clips.
I know I could manually go through and set I/O points, but I was hoping
there was a way to automate this. In theory this would create a bunch
of “virtual” clips from the original… kind of like the cheaper
programs allow you to do…such as Pinnacle and the sort. It just seems
really hard to scroll through an hour clip to find the 10 seconds you
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this works great for analog-to-digital content:
in your case, you would need to re-capture using scenalyzer. the optical scene detection will create a new avi [clip] everytime the scene changes [optical changes because of camera stopping and restarting]. you have total control over the detection sensitivity.
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There’s no way to do this within Adobe? What kind of quality am I am going to be capturing at with this utility if I were to use it?
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Just tried the program you suggested..doesnt work with my setup, plus going through and recapturing the raw video isnt an option.
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capture quality depends on your source.
if your source is vhs, connect using an s-video cable directly to a video graphics card that accepts s-video [such as the ati-9800].
if your source is analog [such as Hi8], a backward compatible Digital8 camcorder can be used to capture via firewire [much better than capturing using an s-video cable that will degrade the source video].
the software [scenalyzer] will not degrade your source since the output is an avi file. the advantage over a premiere capture is that you have the ‘optical scene detection feature’ to break your clips everytime the scene changes.
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if you have a mini-dv camcorder, record the vhs to the camcorder using s-video and audio cables… you will now have a digital conversion that you can run through scenalyzer using a firewire connection.
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As I mentioned, I do not have the source files any longer
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The beta version 4 of Scenalyzer allows you to chop up clips that have already been captured in DV format.
Easier to do this in Scenalyzer than in Premiere and much easier to edit with lots of small clips that bits of a very large one.
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