Scene Detection On Previously Captured Clip?

Is it possible to split an already captured clip into scenes (much how scene detection works during capture) on a sequence timeline?

For DV, check out DVdate; you can split a DV file both by time-of-day timecode and optically. It will bust the scenes out into individual AVI files--I'm assuming you're using a Windows machine, here.
For HDV, check out HDVSplit. I haven't split an HDV stream after-the-fact, but that capability is supposedly available in HDVSplit.
Both programs are free.

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Scene Detect on HD Capture

Is there a way to turn the scnene detect off on Final Cut Express HD??

I just bought Final Cut Express HD but I am familiar with Final cut Pro. When I capture video in HDV with the express progam it automatically makes a new clip everytime the scene changes or the time code breaks, they call it scene detect. SO I want to turn that feature off so that I have longer clips to work with instead of 30 short clips.

Help! Previously captured clips repcaed with newly captured fotage

Let me start by saying I'm a newbie with FCP (using version 5). I'm editing a wedding video and sometime when I capture clips off of a tape it will overwrite the footage of a clip I had already captured previously in the same project. This is extremely frustrating because I have already used that previous clip in the project and it over wrote one that I had alreaady used in a different sequence and totally messed up my edit! All clips are named differently when I do my capture, but it will still replace footage that has a completely unrelated name. When I checked the original clip in the capture scratch folder it show as over-written there with the new footage as well. Please help!

Thanks for getting back to me (and sorry for the misspellings on the title line). Heres what happened: I logged and batch captured footage from a wedding and some posed shots afterwards. I then created 2 sequences (wedding and posed shots) and did my timeline edits of this footage, which included multi-clips (don't don't of that makes a difference). I then started to log and capture some of the rest of the days footage of the reception. However some of those clips over-wrote the clips that I had already captured. For example: lets say I had a clip called "Cam1-posed7", I logged and captured a later clip of the wedding toast called "Cam1-recept-toast" and when I did "capture batch" for the selected clips it over-wrote the "Cam1-posed7" footage in that first clip, both in the browser and in the timeline, even though that original clip remained titled "Cam1-posed7". Its hugely frustrating because I have to go back and find that first clip on the tape, recapture it, and fix my timeline edits in the sequence. Any ideas? I have more caapturing to do in this project and I'm afraid of more over-writes. I'm think I should just run the tape and do a "capture now" and chop it up later, but its so much better to log and capture.

Dropped frames detected in previous capture

We have a matrox mx02 hooked up to the mac and have been doing the log and capture for months now with no issues. all of the sudden it gives this error everytime we attempt to capture. I have found this issue on the forums, but I have yet to see a real solution. Anybody got any ideas? I have tried using basically every setting I can find on easy setup, even using custom settings.. no silver bullet yet. HELP!!

Yeeeeeeahhhhh....the Apple updates. Don't have those run automatically. BAD idea. Once you get a working system, stick with it. Don't update unless you absolutely have to. And research if things break when you do.
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Capture with Scene Detect: Clip Name Keeps Changing

I am editing weddings and my raw footage is usually on 3 tapes. I capture with Scene Detect checked and I name the clip "Clip", so Premiere labels each clip as Clip 01, Clip 02, Clip 03, etc. But when I put in my 2nd tape, Premiere starts labelling them Clip 01 1, Clip 02 1, Clip 03 1, etc. How can I get Premiere to continue from the last number of the previous tape, (the same way that Scenalyzer does automatically)?

How can I get Premiere to continue from the last number of the previous tape
You can't. Once you stop capture, PP will always restart the numbering, even if it's from the same tape.
What I do is use Bridge to Batch Rename the clips.

Scene Detect 8 + 15 extra frames on every captured clip

When capturing HDV in CS5, using Scene Detect creates extra frames.
Imagine clip #1 when it captures its footage, instead of stopping at the end of the clip, it continues for another 15 frames into Clip #2 and tacks this on to the end of Clip #1.
It then starts to capture Clip #2 but first it rolls back (this is done by Scene Detect electronically. The tape does not actually roll back) into Clip #1 and starts the capture 8 frames back into Clip #1 before it continues capturing the footage and proceeds to repeat the 15 extra frames capture from Clip #3. Everything is repeated throught Clip #3, Clip #4, etc. until the end of the tape.
These things did not happen in CS3. This is a CS5 problem.
Essentially each clip starts with 8 frames of the previous clip and ends with 15 frames of the next clip. The extra frames contain both video and audio in perfect sync.
When capturing, I am making no adjustments on the frames control which is what the Adobe Service suspected. I ran a capture with them on line demonstrating the problem.
Although I can still edit with this footage, using scene detect, with 280 clips per hour tape, it is not pleasant removing 8 frames from the front and 15 frames from the back of each of the 280 clips.
Is there a solution to this problem or perhaps a quick-automatic way of removing the frames from each of the 280 clips?
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Scene Detect on a clip after it's been captured?

I've got a clip with multiple interviews on it. I'd like to cut it up into the individual interviews (which all have a fixed camera). I know it can do this when you're capturing a tape, but is there a way to have Premiere autodetect where the cuts were and split up the footage automatically for a clip that's already in your project?

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IMovie Scene detection when capturing and hot keys

Two questions please (this is on a new imac) :
1) I have scene detection turned on for capturing (using a XL2), but it doesn't seem to stop and split up the scenes.
Does the scene detection only work when the time-code is broken - ie;
when the machine is powered off and on? Does it detect when it is paused?
2) Is there a list of hot keys for editing like the RAZOR tool etc?
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Scene detection normally works, so there must be something going on with you old camera.
I have a bunch of old analog 8MM tapes that I imported through a DV 8MM Digital camera. These all came in as 1 long clip.
It is true you can delete a frame and then use iMovie to split the events. However, I have found a much quicker way that is non-destructive and allows you to enter the date metadata.
1) Download and install MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5. You can google it.
2) Drag your long clip into MPEG Streamclip. (If you don't know where it is, Right-click on the clip in the imovie event and select "Reveal in FInder".
3) Think if dividing your long clip into Events (everything you shot on a single day, for example) - and Scenes (clips) - an individual unit of footage within the Event.
4) Move the MPEG Streamclip playhead to the beginning of the 1st scene and press I for in point. Movie the Playhead to the last frame of the scene and press O for out point.
5) Now, FILE/EXPORT TO DV. Save it to a location you can easily find, like a folder on your desktop. Give it name in the following format: clip-yyyy-mm-dd hh;mm;ss.dv This will preserve the time metadata for later when you are editing. You may want to have your camera handy so you can easily see this data.
6) Repeat this process until you have all clips done. You should find that the playhead is still at the out point. You can simply type I and you have set the in point for a totally nondestructive capture of the next clip.
7) Finally, open iMovie and use FILE/IMPORT/MOVIES... and navigate to the place where you saved all these clips. iMovie will import and sort into Events (you may have to check "split days into new events". Let it generate thumbnails and you are done.

Scene Detection on Capture?

Primere Pro has an option when capturing "scene detection", makes capturing individual clips easy and fast. I would think there's a similar feature in FCP 5.1?

Start/Stop detect does not, on its own, make individual clips. You use it in a process to make 'sub-clips'. Sub-clips are pointers to the main clip, they are not individually editable files.
If you are shooting HDV, FCP5 can create new clips on GOP frame breaks which is the same thing as scene detection.
If you are shooting DV, you need a 3rd party app (for example CatDV + Live Capture Plus) to create individual clips from long captures.
good luck.
x

Capturing High Definition, Scene Detection

I've captured some High Definition material and found FCE separates it into clips divided at the point the camera was stopped and started when the original recording was made. This left me with some 250 clips from a 36 minute recording.
This is described as a 'feature' of capturing High Definition recordings in my instruction book. It does not seem to be a feature that can be turned off. Is that the case ?
One way to deal with this seems to be to highlight all the clips and then drag them on to the time line.
Paul Bishop

My style of shooting owes much to making Wedding Videos back in 1985 on VHS. At that time it was either VHS or very expensive professional formats which were not economic. VHS looks appalling if edited on a linear system (all that was available then) so the Video I shot on the day was the video the couple got. I've been using linear and then non-linear systems since 1991 and having now got into Final Cut I am gradually changing style.
I take it I cannot switch off scene detection if capturing High Definition video ?
Paul Bishop

Scene Detect on Existing Clips

I have about a dozen 20-30 minute films I have captured to video tape and have loaded into my system. Because of some of the content of the tape, and historical/geneological images, I would like to break the films down to individual scenes and then attach metadata and other info to the scenes for later tracking or sorting. (Through Bridge)
With the films captured, though, it is a bit problematic. Making sub clips, or "converting to master clip" doesn't work (which was expected) but is there any way to use scene detection with the existing AVI file, to break the films down to individual clips? Or, is my best bet to re-capture the films with scene detection set to on and use those individual clips?
Thanks,
Bill
Using Win Vista, with CS3 collection...

Yep, that's what I thought. I was thinking of scenealyzer as well...
Thanks,
Bill

TS3391 iMovie 11 is not working. I try to open it and it says it is generating thumbnails for one of my previous projects. All the commands are gray. I have to force it to quit. I just want to capture clips to start a new project.

iMovie 11 is not working. I try to open it and it says it is generating thumbnails for one of my previous projects. All the commands are gray. I have to force it to quit. I just want to capture clips to start a new project. I googled the problem and there were discussions about deleting files in various folders and renaming clip extensions. I don't like the solutions I saw there and I am not sure they will work.

Nobody replied so I called Apple. They seemed to think they could fix the problem but I had to agree to pay about $20 first. I told them to put it down as a complaint. I only want to use the software I bought. I can't see that it is my fault it is malfunctioning. I guess I will have to pay. It doesn't seem right.

Premiere Elements 4.0 - cannot set DV capture Scene Detect

New install / Premiere Elements 4.0 (Panasonic DV, firewire connection)
Premiere Elements 4.0 - cannot set DV capture Scene Detect
HELP Says: "select or deselect Scene Detect By Timecode or Scene Detect By Content in the Capture panel menu"
DV Capture panel menu does not provide this option; instead a popup appears "DV Capture Preview Settings"
trying to capture as single AVI file, no scene detect
thanks, GARRY

When you open Premiere Elements 4 and the Welcome Screen appears, click on "Capture Video". The Capture Window will appears. Look up to the top right of that Window (those tiny black arrows next to the X/close).
Clicking on those tiny black arrows results in a drop down list which should include the options:
Scene Detect by Timecode
Scene Detect by Content
I suspect that you are clicking on that camcorder icon just below those tiny black arrow.
If I am wrong, please let us know.

Speedgrade crashes every time I use split into clips function as part of scene detection.

Speedgrade CC (latest version) crashes every time I use split into clips function as part of scene detection.
I can use the keyframe function fine, but if i split it into clips it crashes 9 out of 10 times... so to get the job done i simply keep reopening the project, cliping and praying it works, then it crashes.... and i repeat this until it doesnt crash!
File format im using is a 22min long Prores422 HQ 1080 25P file.
Any ideas?.... im guessing im going to get the old "reinstall the software" one first... anything else?
also have issues with Speedgrade just crashing for no good reason at random times while im grading too but ive come to expect that from the buggy software.

I've got several 1080p mov's that have multiple sequences with 20 to 40 minutes a sequence I've regularly run over to Sg from PrPro. Granted, they're pretty straight forward, mostly simple cuts with a few transitions/wipes, no more than 3 video layers a sequence. Only one has any Ae stuff on it, and again, pretty simple.
But as noted, there are those who do programs for broadcast with it ... I'm wishing one would chime in. Maybe shooternz ... I think he does b-cast work. Vastly more experienced than I am, PrPro, Ae, Sg, Audition ... the "suite". There's several others around here, though they tend to 'hang' in the PrPro forum more than here.
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Speedgrade scene detection clips export easily into premiere pro??

I have a .mp4 movie and want to scene detect it to get different clips using speedgrade.
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I dont want to change the order of clips. the clip splitting is just for speedgrade adjustments.
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SG erzeugt keine Clips. Die Szenenerkennung wird nur intern verwendet, um separate Korrekturen voneinander zu trennen. Wenn, dann müßte jedes Segment separat exportiert werden. Aber umgekehrt kann SG wunderbar vorseparierte Premiere Sequenzen verwenden...
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