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Chris Phillipo <cphillipo@ramsays-online.com> wrote:
>I only just started using batch capturing, I was simply capturing a
>large segment of video and editing by pulling parts out of it but it is
>a futile efford in Ulead Video Studio because you can't grab the slider
>and scroll through the video while it's playing. I'm editing autosport
>events and I have many small scenes that I need to seperate. I
>discovered with batch capture (when it works) I could walk away and come
>back to 50 scenes with preview icons that show me exactly what is in
>each scene and quickly shuffle things onto the timeline without any
>searching. I can avoid the 5 second problem, that is not really the
>main issue, it's the stop and start, FF and RW of my camera over 100
>times in an hour, it gets quite hot by the end of this. It seems
>excessive and unecessary for the job I'm trying to do, my tiny Elura 2MC
>doesns't seem like it will stand up to much of that. I think I may have
>to just capture the entire tape and use a program to chop up the file in
>the same mannor as batch capturing, it's just going to take twice as
>much disk space, I just need to find something that lets me edit DV
>format by pressing the mark in and mark out buttons while the file is
>playing and doesn't require draging anything to a timeline in between.
Hi Chris,
Batch capture is left over from the early days of analog video. Most
people have given it up as a lost cause, but a few "old timers" still
cling to batching because that is the way they have always done it.
However, with DV, almost all modern editing programs give your the
option of capturing your full tape as a series of individual files
broken at every point you started and stopped your camcorder during
recording. This gives you a "batch" capture of the entire tape
without starting and stopping your camcorder hundreds of times, and it
is also "frame accurate," which real batch capture is not.
The down side of this is that you can easily end up with hundreds of
tiny files if you start and stop your shooting every few seconds. I
don't use Ulead Video Studio, but I recall seeing DV scene detection
capture as a feature. But, in any case Scenealizer, Premiere,
Pinnacle Studio, Vegas, etc. etc. all have this feature, and most
people use it as a fast "automatic" batch capture. Then you just go
through your captured video and discard anything you don't want, then
arrange the scenes the way you like and trim/combine them for your
finished project.
On the other hand, many people find working with all these small files
is a real pain and would rather capture the full tape and cut/save
each segment they want manually. (It sounds from your above as if
Ulead is not good at this most basic feature). Also, many editing
programs start to bog down if you import hundreds of separate
files/scenes. The best system I've found to work with a large amount
of footage is that used by Pinnacle Studio products. They actually
capture the entire tape (or whatever portion you want) as one file,
but mark each scene separately (based on timecode or optically) so
each scene appears to be a separate file. Scenealizer will also
capture using the Pinnacle Studio system, but the captured scene file
is only usable within Studio.
NOTE HOWEVER, that Pinnacle Studio makes heavy demands on your
computer system and people who can't or won't configure their systems
correctly have all kinds of problems.
So, if you want to stick with Ulead Video Studio, I suggest you use
its DV scene detection mode based on timecode and see if that works
better than trying to go an actual batch capture, which will very
quickly wear out your camcorder.
Hope this helps,
Susan
I guess in an effort to make it more stable they force you to stop 
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