Capture video as Separate files, not one file

[Guest]

OK, I've read a bunch of information but now one has addressed the following:

in MM2 I can capture a whole DV tape, but it saves the tape as one file.
Yes, if I load it in a collection in MM2 I can create 'clips' but physically
the files remains as one file on the hard drive.

How can I change that one file into separate clips where the sum of the
clips equals the whole file?? Do I have to re-capture the tape with
different software? I need to save all the files as a .wmv extension for
media centre extender playback.

PLEASE HELP.

 

[Guest]

Hi Mystman!
Are you using a firewire cable? Do you have some capture software that came
with your cam?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

You can either 'finish' each segment during capturing to get a separate
file, or save the segment to a new movie file in MM2.... there's no batch
process available at either the capturing or the saving movie steps.
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[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Another option - use the Windows Media File Editor to split a big WMV file
into parts, quickly and without re-encoding. The utility comes with the
Encoder package.... see the link on the Setup > Other Software page of my
site.

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[steve]

I usually capture the whole tape first. Then once I have
all my clips created, I make smaller movies. The clip
wizard looks for time breaks (for example when the
camcorder was turned on/off). So its fairly simple to grab
continuous clips that go together to make a smaller movie.
Dump them in the timeline and render smaller movies. Since
my movies are of my growing daughters, its beneficial for
me to make smaller movies. Then when I import into MyDVD
v4.5, I end up with pseud-chapters as this version can't
create chapters. Each movie becomes a chapter. That's the
advantage. The disadvantage is that you need to have the
hard drive space as when you are done you will take up 2x
the amount that you imported. But once I know that I am
satisfied with the smaller movies, I delete the original
full length and dump the smaller ones on my back up hard
drive. Then follow with a defrag if necessary.

Good luck.

 

[Guest]

PapaJohn:

Thanks for the option...But it seems that the easy way around all this is to
use a third party Capture software that can capture to high quality .wmv
files. Are you aware of any? Can you suggest one Please.

Mystyman

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Mystyman,

I don't have any suggestions... I do all my capturing with Movie Maker. And
my limited testing of other apps such as Premiere 6 to render to WMV files
has shown lower quality than using MM2.
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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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