I need some help with HDV split.

On my old computer I used HDVsplit to capture the footage from my hv20 because it did a nice job at breaking up scenes and what not.

I just built my new PC and after installing HDVsplit it is saying that it can't find an MPEG1 audio decoder so audio is turned off.

I proceed to capture from my camcorder and the clips have no sound. Strange. It refers to FFDShow and configuring the audio settings, but I don't have FFDShow. I download and install FFDShow and I can't find any audio configurations like HDVsplit help file recommends.

I am at a loss here. Why can't I get my HDVsplit to work?

On a side note, I used VideoStudio11+ to capture some footage and it captures it as an mpg and not an m2t file. Are these files downrezzed? I put them in the edit and it says they are 1440x1080i but it is weird that they file extension is different.

I tried to load these mpg files into HDVsplit to split them up, but it didn't work. I also tried to change the extension of the .mpg to .m2t and load it into HDVsplit but I guess you can't just change extensions anymore.

BTW I am using Vista Ultimate.

TIA. Sorry for the long post.

Windows Vista Ultimate here and HDVSplit working perfectly with my HV20. No FFDShow installed, just brand new HPm9080n PC.

M2T is just a shell for MPEG files. VideoStudio 11+ is not downrezzing at capture time .

Is your HDVSplit the .77 version ? That's what I have.

Sergio

Well glad that it is working for someone. I might just search for another version of HDVsplit...perhaps an older version. I have the most recent from the website.

It is funny that with the videostudio 11+ break into scenes command, the file still remains one large file...even trying to break it up with HDVsplit it is staying one file. It is making it difficult to edit with one large hour long file.

Keep trying....

Greg :

When a video editing program "breaks" a movie into several clips, it doesn't actually do anything to the files. It just creates "pointers" to the scenes and store them in a work area or save in the project. You shouldn't expect VideoStudio to create several new small files but when you open the project again you will see that the clips will appear individually on the timeline. That's because the software has all the pointers saved, start and end of each clip.

That's is NOT, however, the case with HDVSplit. It should really break the video in small files, as it does with my system.

Sergio

Well I thought in the capture part of the software it had a check box for split into scenes. I guess I just assumed that it meant separate files like hdvsplit.

How do I use these scene markers then while editing?

If you can't tell...super novice here.

You treat them like separate "segments" of your whole video. Each segment can be trimmed, edit, deleted or whatever else you can do with a single entire video. When you split into scenes you see a bunch of these segments that in most editors is called "clips". You can also move clips , changing the original sequence of your movie. Again, you do all of this without actually changing your original file or creating new ones. Think about "virtual scenes" and remember that the software will use the pointers to pick up whatever you did during the editing when you create your final (edited) movie.

You don't need to split into scenes. Scene markers are IN and OUT points that represent what you want to extract from the clip (if you split the movie) or the whole movie if you don't split it.

Sergio

Oh, yes I understand that part of it.

I guess I just don't get why video studio has the "auto scene" button if it doesnt split it up into separate files automatically?

It seems to me that it would not bog down as much if you had lots of smaller files in the timeline rather than the same large file with Ins and Outs several times.

Video Studio will have lots of "smaller files" in the timeline if you use "auto scenes". They are just "images' of the real file and you can do whatever yhou want with these small individual clips.
If everything is working well, you should be able to break the whole video in small clips in the timeline.

Thanks slim, I will try that when I get home.

Ok, so that didn't work. I set it up to do the auto scene split thing on a 14.6 gb file and it just froze. I let it work on it overnight and it had shown that it split into 16 different clips but it was frozen for sure. I need something else to clip these files....thoughts?