Quick question...

[moreau]

I did some searching, and wasn't having luck with my serch terms...

I had a couple of DV tapes I made in my Canon Optura 20 which had discontinuities in the time code. For this reason, or so I am led to believe from the Matrox Forums (the other matrox forums ) the Matrox tools cannot capture automatically.

So, I did a manual capture of the entire tape in Premiere 6.5. Now, I want to take the large (4GB+, 20min) file and slice it into individual files for archiving/editing.

What is the best way to do this? I was working and premiere, and was at a loss.

As a corallary... is there a better way to deal with a tape such as this?

Thanks,
CEM

[SpiralDragon]

isnt there a DV scene extraction feeture in Premier.... if there is its just a matter of spliting the file on the time line into the several bits and just rendering those parts that you want to difrent files

[moreau]

If the operation is a "rerender", does some quality loss result?

As opposed to what would be a "file copy" of a specific portion, with a start and end of file appended to the clip?

Thanks for the reply,
CEM

[SpiralDragon]

i am not sure how premier workes on this end.... in any event when you digitise you are transforming the material into Premier's DV codecs... which i think are the WinDV codecs.... so reouputing (rendering) them shouldnt make u loose qulity.... if i am not mistaken

[Ted222]

I agree....there should be no re-render unless you apply some effects or filters. Also, I have found the output to be about 4 times "real time" to save the individual files on my system.

Ted