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[kyun7128]

Hi.  I ran the Smart Scan feature of a home movie (with various events) on my Sony DV camcorder.  Smart Scan produced 71 separate events.  I seem to have 2 problems when I try to capture ALL the events:
1.  The capture function on Roxio Media Import seems to omit capturing the very first event.  I have tried this on 2 separate DV tapes (where I have used Smart Scan) and both times, it would not capture the very first event.  I can manually capture this first event but I cannot capture it when I choose it during a Smart Scan.
2.  I highlighted all 71 events and then I press Capture Now.  Roxio only captured the first 52 events.  Does Roxio set a limit on how many events it can capture in one session?

I like the Smart Scan feature but it seems to have a couple bugs...or I'm just doing something wrong.  Any comments or advice would be appreciated.  Thank you.

Ken

[james_hardin]

Not too many of us use Smart Scan mainly for all the wear & tear it forces on the camcorder…

Likewise it does not work with all camcorders and yours seems to be one of them, so just use the manual capture.

I prefer manually locating and designating scenes but you can try scene detection after you capture the tape.

[kyun7128]

james_hardin, on Nov 5 2006, 04:07 AM, said:

Not too many of us use Smart Scan mainly for all the wear & tear it forces on the camcorder…

Likewise it does not work with all camcorders and yours seems to be one of them, so just use the manual capture.

I prefer manually locating and designating scenes but you can try scene detection after you capture the tape.

Thank you for your comments.  I suspected that many people do not use Smart Scan because when I did a search on the topic, there were only 2 entries.  I wanted to use this feature because it saves me manually scanning through the tape but I guess I'm just being lazy.  I guess I will do it like everyone else.  Thanks again.

Ken

[james_hardin]

No you are not being lazy.

I don't have V8 installed anymore but check out Scene Detect. I think it is part of Media Manager.

[myguggi]

kyun7128, on Nov 5 2006, 02:10 PM, said:

Thank you for your comments. I suspected that many people do not use Smart Scan because when I did a search on the topic, there were only 2 entries. I wanted to use this feature because it saves me manually scanning through the tape but I guess I'm just being lazy. I guess I will do it like everyone else. Thanks again.

Ken

Search the internet for a small, free utility called WinDV. It will capture from your camcorder (using a Firewire connection of course) to individual files based on the timestamp on the camcorder tape. Unlike SmartScan, you can start and stop capturing at any point on the tape.

[kyun7128]

myguggi, on Nov 5 2006, 06:41 PM, said:

Search the internet for a small, free utility called WinDV. It will capture from your camcorder (using a Firewire connection of course) to individual files based on the timestamp on the camcorder tape. Unlike SmartScan, you can start and stop capturing at any point on the tape.

Thank you for the advice on using WinDV.   I looked it up and it seems to be highly regarded.  I have downloaded and started using it. I was looking as someone else's comments on how to configure it and they said to Discontinuity Teshold to "0" and Max AVI to "1,000,000".  Now when I capture my DV tape, it just saves it as one large file.  It does not separate each event on the tape based on the time stamp.  I am suspecting the changes to the configuration may have caused this.  Am I right?  What should the correct configuration settings be?  Thank you for your help.

Ken

Never mind...I looked it up on the web and found some good instructions on how to use WinDV.  It's pretty straight forward when you know how.

Edited by kyun7128, 06 November 2006 - 02:46 PM.

[myguggi]

kyun7128, on Nov 6 2006, 01:18 PM, said:

Thank you for the advice on using WinDV. I looked it up and it seems to be highly regarded. I have downloaded and started using it. I was looking as someone else's comments on how to configure it and they said to Discontinuity Teshold to "0" and Max AVI to "1,000,000". Now when I capture my DV tape, it just saves it as one large file. It does not separate each event on the tape based on the time stamp. I am suspecting the changes to the configuration may have caused this. Am I right? What should the correct configuration settings be? Thank you for your help.

Ken

Never mind...I looked it up on the web and found some good instructions on how to use WinDV. It's pretty straight forward when you know how.

Ken, glad you found the program and figured out how to use it. I have never changed any of the default settings and have never had a problem capturing. I don't use anything else when capturing from my camcorder.