During editing my current video, I discovered an unfortunate characteristic
of Vegas Pro 8. When capturing HDV, the automatic splitting of clips does
not work very well (VP-8 generally leaves three bad frames to the left of the
split and two on the right - which must be manually removed). Unfortunately,
I have found no way to disable the automatic clip splitting in VP-8 during
capture of footage. Also unfortunately, using Premiere Elements 4 for
capturing uncut clips leaves the problem of increased color saturation at
export from the Sony timeline when using Premiere's .mpeg clips on the Vegas
timeline and exporting them as .m2t files (even though no recompression is
needed for footage that has not been changed during editing).
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David Ruether
d_ruether@hotmail.com
www.donferrario.com/ruether

David Ruether wrote:

David, I'm not an HDV user but I've read about this problem on various
Vegas forums.
Most folks either use HDV Split (it's free) or capture without scene
detection (not sure how that's done either) and split the files later.

Mike

"Mike Kujbida" <kXuXjXfXaXm@xplornet.com> wrote in message news:69p04eF344bkeU1@mid.individual.net...
Yes. HDVSplit mystified me a bit, and I was hoping to use something
more obvious to me that did not appear to require downloading drivers
from a less than reassuring site. I was willing to use another editing
program, or Vegas without file splitting, but neither has been successful
so far (at this point I will likely use Vegas, and trim off the bad frames, or
Elements if I want the red-shifted and more saturated color). If anyone
knows how to capture with Vegas with scene splitting turned off, please
let me know...
--DR

David Ruether wrote:

HDVSplit is well-known and trusted in the Vegsa community so don't worry
about the site being "less than reassuring".
To answer your scene detection question, I found this on the Sony Vegas
forum:
Don't go to the usual Tools/Preferences.
Look at the HD Capture window. Click PREFS. It's a button on the upper
left side.
Once you click that there are only like 3 tabs. On the first tab go all
the way to the bottom and uncheck scene detection.

Mike

"Mike Kujbida" <kXuXjXfXaXm@xplornet.com> wrote in message news:69qrtgF340cllU1@mid.individual.net...
Thanks!
--DR