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PPro DV capture on Mac: auto scene detect and resulting clips
I’m using PPro CS4 on Mac to capture DV footage from tape. I recently converted from PPro on PC and have a work flow issue. I want to do the following:
- Capture an entire tape or section of a tape with automatic scene detect on to break footage into clips using a “dummy” project. Captured footage may include several unrelated events.
- Delete unwanted clips to conserve disk space and reduce clutter.
- Group remaining clips into directories by by event/category to create a clip “library” for use across multiple projects. E.g …/Media/RawVideo/Holiday/2009/07_04-Beach and …/Media/RawVideo/Sports/2009/06_27-UltimateRunner.
PPro on Mac produces a single monolithic .mov file with subclips corresponding to detected scenes in the dummy project (PC produces multiple AVI files). This doesn’t allow the unwanted clips to be deleted and the remaining clips can’t be reorganized into directories by event/category.
Is there an automated way to render the subclips in the dummy project to individual .mov files or some other technique (or capture tool) to produce individual files? What kind of work flow do others use for DV tape capture w PPro Mac?
Thanks!
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There is a possible way to do some form of batch list export maybe that can bring in each sub-clip as clip to batch capture as seperate clips but the Mac version of PPro can’t support the same PC auto detect as separate captured clips, because Apple wouldn’t allow Adobe into that part of the OS code (from what I’ve heard). So you may need to get used to it.
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Use iMovie to capture the clips, automatically will create separate clips, in .dv format, which is basically the format that the camera records the video an audio on the same channel with fixed data rate.
.mov is just a wrapper that separate the audio from the video in two separate channels, programs like final cut pro prefer to handle the information in this way.
I’ve been using .dv on premiere and it works seamlessly. I haven’t found any information on the net against this.
Even DV avi files brought from windows work well.
I’d like to hear your thoughts.
Thanks,Aldo
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