Just came back from an extended vacation with 14 hours of
DV video. I've captured it all from the tapes to HDD
(about 170 GB of data!) using MM2 with automatic clip
detection, which worked well. However, I can't figure out
how to *physically* split resulting 14 DV-AVI 60min files
in a way that each clip is in a separate DV-AVI file. I
absolutely need to do this since not all of it is good :-)
[sarcasm], but there are some gems, and doing it manually
(vs. using MM2's auto clip facility) would be exceedingly
tedius -- there are a total of several hundred clips
there. Keeping 170GB of data online, most of it useless,
is just not feasible.

Can anyone suggest an approach? I haven't had much luck
with any shareware and freeware programs I've found --
none of them seem to automatically detect clip boundaries,
only manual.

Any help would be appreciated.

Joe

Trim the clip to the portion you want saved, then use
"Save Movie File", and save to disk in the DV-AVI format.


"Joe Curzone" <jcurzone_NOSPAM@yahoo_NOSPAM.ca> wrote:
> Just came back from an extended vacation with 14 hours of
> DV video. I've captured it all from the tapes to HDD
> (about 170 GB of data!) using MM2 with automatic clip
> detection, which worked well. However, I can't figure out
> how to *physically* split resulting 14 DV-AVI 60min files
> in a way that each clip is in a separate DV-AVI file. I
> absolutely need to do this since not all of it is good :-)
> [sarcasm], but there are some gems, and doing it manually
> (vs. using MM2's auto clip facility) would be exceedingly
> tedius -- there are a total of several hundred clips
> there. Keeping 170GB of data online, most of it useless,
> is just not feasible.
>
> Can anyone suggest an approach? I haven't had much luck
> with any shareware and freeware programs I've found --
> none of them seem to automatically detect clip boundaries,
> only manual.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Joe

Thank you for the reply, but I am aware I can do this
manually already. It's just that doing it manual will
take me several weeks, since as I mention, there are
several hundred clips. I am looking for an automatic way -
- MM2 already knows what the clips are, I just need every
one of those in a separate DV-AVI file, that's all.

Thanks,
Joe
>-----Original Message-----
>Trim the clip to the portion you want saved, then use
>"Save Movie File", and save to disk in the DV-AVI format.
>
>
>"Joe Curzone" <jcurzone_NOSPAM@yahoo_NOSPAM.ca> wrote:
>> Just came back from an extended vacation with 14 hours
of
>> DV video. I've captured it all from the tapes to HDD
>> (about 170 GB of data!) using MM2 with automatic clip
>> detection, which worked well. However, I can't figure
out
>> how to *physically* split resulting 14 DV-AVI 60min
files
>> in a way that each clip is in a separate DV-AVI file. I
>> absolutely need to do this since not all of it is
good :-)
>> [sarcasm], but there are some gems, and doing it
manually
>> (vs. using MM2's auto clip facility) would be
exceedingly
>> tedius -- there are a total of several hundred clips
>> there. Keeping 170GB of data online, most of it useless,
>> is just not feasible.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest an approach? I haven't had much luck
>> with any shareware and freeware programs I've found --
>> none of them seem to automatically detect clip
boundaries,
>> only manual.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Joe
>
>
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