[MacDV] Breaking DVD Film Up Into Clips

[Gregg Gorrie]

Let me know how it works for you Ian. Although I have done most of my analog
VHS stuff, I still have a couple of hours of old 8mm film that was
transferred to Hi 8mm video that needs to be edited, with <lots> of short
scenes, so it may be worth the $ to save time there.

Hope your fishing trip is going well!

Gregg


on 8/27/08 9:47 PM, TUCKER ian at carlian at picknowl.com.au wrote:

> 
> Hi Gregg,
> 
> Yes, "automatically" breaking up the video into clips is exactly what
> I meant.
> 
> I appreciate you taking the time to do some searching and I have now
> visited the site.     " Scene Detector" sure looks the goods!
> 
> I am off on a week's fishing on South Australia's Eyre Psa. tomorrow,
> but look forward to trying out the Appn. (Price $74.) upon my return.
> 
> Once again, this List proves how valuable it can be!
> 
> Thanks again,
> Ian Tucker
> 
> 
> On 28/08/2008, at 5:18 AM, Gregg Gorrie wrote:
> 
>> I'm assuming you mean "automatically" breaking up the video into
>> individual
>> clips.
>> 
>> I just did a Google search - most of the solutions seemed to be PC/
>> Windows
>> based - and was about to give up when I stumbled on this. Seems to be
>> exactly what you're looking for and works directly with FCP projects:
>> 
>> <http://www.scene-detector.com/>
>> 
>> I wish I had this when I was editing 20+ hours of my dad's old VHS
>> footage.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Gregg
>> 
>> on 8/25/08 6:57 PM, TUCKER ian at carlian at picknowl.com.au wrote:
>> 
>>> I forwarded the the following message last evening:-
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I am currently re-editing some old analogue VHS tapes of holidays.
>>> I am doing this by playing the VHS tapes in a VCR and recording them
>>> onto DVD's in our lounge room DVD player/recorder.  Following this, I
>>> am playing the DVD disc in my Mac. and recording it in FCP (latest
>>> edition).   Because there is no time code I am having to physically
>>> break the film up into clips either by the Blade tool, or using the
>>> in
>>> and out keys.
>>> 
>>> Is there any process I can use that will break the imported film into
>>> individual clips?   I know this is a long shot, but just
>>> maybe.......?
>>> 
>>> Ian T.
>>> 
>>> I appreciate the various responses, but somehow the subject matter
>>> has
>>> seemed to have wandered off track.
>>> 
>>> I have a Sony  HDR-HCV video camera which will not allow analogue
>>> input/digital output through to the computer.
>>> 
>>> Awhile back I purchased an Elgato Eye TV package which allows my S-
>>> VCR
>>> to be connected to  my computer  via a loom and box with s-Video and
>>> audio cables.   However I found this process rather cumbersome and
>>> the
>>> result was not too smart.
>>> 
>>> I resorted to my current process and I have been pleased with the
>>> the
>>> results.
>>> 
>>> My problem is the splitting of the film into clips once I have
>>> captured it on the computer.   I will have a look at MPEG-Streamclip
>>> as suggested by sb.
>>> 
>>> Thanks .
>>> 
>>> Ian T.
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>> -- 
>> Gregg
>> 
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