Problem wiht HDVSplit
Jacques E. Bouchard
during HDV capture (great, ANOTHER shortcoming). However, whevener the tape
gets to a point where I changed framerate or format (SD/HD), or where I
left a blank of a second or two (by reviewing footage), the program stops
capturing and tells me there's no more data. I have to restart capturing,
which can be a pain.
The other thing is that, even though my laptop is fast enough, when using
the preview window during capture the program crashes sooner or later and I
have to reboot (just restarting the program doesn't work) to continue
capturing.
Is there other software that'll simply do HD capture with scene splitting
and is more stable?
jaybee
David Ruether
"Jacques E. Bouchard" <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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Premiere will scene split (quite well) after capture - but I
don't know how well it will handle mixed frame rates or
formats. It seems unwise to me to mix these on the same
tape...
--David Ruether
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Jacques E. Bouchard
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> Premiere will scene split (quite well) after capture - but I
> don't know how well it will handle mixed frame rates or
> formats. It seems unwise to me to mix these on the same
> tape...
I did not know it would perform the scene splitting after capture. Is it
automatic, or is that hidden in a menu somewhere?
I only changed to SD once to do an additional shot for an old project.
Mostly it was changes in frame rates and blanks due to rewinding and fast-
forwarding to review the footage.
jaybee
David Ruether
"Jacques E. Bouchard" <inv...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> Premiere will scene split (quite well) after capture - but I
>> don't know how well it will handle mixed frame rates or
>> formats. It seems unwise to me to mix these on the same
>> tape...
> I did not know it would perform the scene splitting after capture. Is it
> automatic, or is that hidden in a menu somewhere?
Ooops! I don't have Premiere handy just now - but the scene
splitting in Elements is done as it is captured as I now recall for
SD, and it is done after capture for HDV (from a menu item).
Switching frame rates and formats (and including time code
breaks) on the same tape is really going to complicate this
process, and likely make it not work... Either swap out tapes
to keep formats and frame rates consistent within a tape (taking
care to keep time code without breaks), or record 10-20 seconds
of black between changes (still unwise...) and manually start and
stop captures within footage that is all the same.
> I only changed to SD once to do an additional shot for an old project.
You can always convert HD to DV-AVI when needed...
> Mostly it was changes in frame rates and blanks due to rewinding and fast-
> forwarding to review the footage.
>
> jaybee
I would try really hard to avoid these problems on the same tape...
(but others may not be so cautious...;-).
--DR