Software to create individual files from clips

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I have lots of HI8 tapes of various family functions/events. I am
wanting to take those long tapes and break them down into various
clips that are individual files...For example: on tape001, I have
"uncle Johnny skiing", new grandkid, pool-party for grandson, son's
graduation from med-school, etc.

Currently am testing with Ulead's Visual Studio 8. I capture the
whole video into one file (and this may be my mistake) then mark the
clips I want to use. The software does not save those clips into
their own file. Rather, it notes the start/stop points within the
captured video and stores that information into a project file.
Ulead's tech-support folks say I have two choices to do what I want:
1) remove all of the clips from the time-line EXCEPT the one I want to
keep. Then render that clip into a file. OR 2) as I capture the
video via my PVR-250 card, start/stop camera and save into seperate
files at that point. The second option seems like it would be hard on
the camera with all the ff and rew needed.

I'm thinking there must be some software out there where I feed it the
captured video, I mark the start/stop points, then save that "clip" to
a file for use when I need it. Kinda like what used to be done with
film (except I wouldn't need a lot of clothes-pins and have strips of
film hanging everywhere).

Suggestions, URLs welcome.

Bill W

 

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bweissbo@lucent.com (Bill W.) wrote:

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>I'm thinking there must be some software out there where I feed it the
>captured video, I mark the start/stop points, then save that "clip" to
>a file for use when I need it. Kinda like what used to be done with
>film (except I wouldn't need a lot of clothes-pins and have strips of
>film hanging everywhere).

That should be easy to do with TMPGEnc.

 

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DeepOne@ix.netcom.com wrote in message

> >I'm thinking there must be some software out there where I feed it the
> >captured video, I mark the start/stop points, then save that "clip" to
> >a file for use when I need it.
>
> That should be easy to do with TMPGEnc.

that is assuming the captured video is already in mpeg or mpeg2
format.

If in avi format, virtualdub is the one to use.

Doesn't Ulead Studio let you manually start and end capturing, rather
than do the whole tape? the programs I've used have that option
(Pinnacle, Windows Movie Maker etc.)

 

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aa172@torfree.net (Tippi) wrote:

>DeepOne@ix.netcom.com wrote in message
>
>> >I'm thinking there must be some software out there where I feed it the
>> >captured video, I mark the start/stop points, then save that "clip" to
>> >a file for use when I need it.
>>
>> That should be easy to do with TMPGEnc.
>
>that is assuming the captured video is already in mpeg or mpeg2
>format.

No. I was assuming that the capture was in AVI format and that he
wanted his clips in MPEG or MPEG2. If the capture is already in MPEG
format, he can still extract clips with TMPGEnc, but he won't
necessarily be able to cut at the exact frame he wants.

>If in avi format, virtualdub is the one to use.

If he wants the clips to stay in AVI format, I suppose so.