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Hey guys, I am a newer mac user and am wondering if there is a peice of sotware for the mac like I have for the PC. The one I have for the PC is called scenealyzer. It is a capture utillity that divides all the clips on the start/stop of when you were recording. It doesn't divide them any other place. It's fast and flawless. Now I just bought CatDV Live Capture Plus thinking and hoping it was the same thing. I am only having problems with it, It keeps dividing the clips where there is no start/stop of the camera, and I just can't get it to work right. Is there any other programs that are made for the mac that capture dv files that work in FCP for the mac? ( i need this software doing weddings because I will not waste my time sitting around all day logging, when I can just capture and have it break up all the clips itself. It's a real time saver).

What camera(s) were you shooting with?
Certain ones (Canons come to mind) have been reported to write weak time code tracks with the resulting captures highly problematic. That is, lots of 'time code breaks' reported even though the camera was running contirnuouly.
While not an external program, you can get something like what you want using components of FCP.
Do a full tape capture using Log&Capture.
Set your IN point at least 30 seconds into the tape and your OUT point about 30 seconds or so before the end of the timecode.
Log the tape as one clip,
Do a Batch capture.
This will bring in the whole tape in one shot (it only happens in real time however) but avoids all the significant problems of using Capture Now.
Once in the Browser, Highlight the clip
Select: Mark>DV Start/Stop Detect.
This will place markers at the camera start/stops.
Then, with all the markers on the clip highlighted,
select: Make Subclip (command U).
This will generate sub-clips from the markers. Subclips can be generally treated like discrete clips.
Be warned time remapping (slow mo or speeding up) sub-clips is highly problematic.
Still, I'd try to troubleshot why CatDV isn't working first simply because I HATE working with sub-clips (the time remapping issues are a deal breaker for me)
good luck.
x

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