Chop-up VHS Import

Ok, so this should be realy simple...
I have a camcorder tape that I captured through my WinTV card, now I want to
chop this long tape into individual Clips that I can then put into my Roxio
DVD Creator so I can have a nice indexed movie of all of the things I have
taped. Here are my questions:
- once I import the one 2+hr clip and chop it into logical segments how do
I save them all as clips? When the Auto tool tried to do it there was a mess
(700+ nonsensical clips)
- Am I correct in using Roxio to burn the DVD so I can get my DVD menuing
(It just looks easy)

Steve
Tue Sep 28 10:53:10 CDT 2004

First off realize that the clips created by the wizard
aren't really individual files. Your 2hr movie would still
be intact as imported. These clips just allow you to build
your movie easier by giving you smaller segments to work
with. Your original video is unaffected by clip creation.
With imported digital video, the clips are created by
breaks in the timestamp, which signifies a stop/start of
the camcorder.

Secondly, 2 hrs won't fit on one DVD unless you have a
dual layer drive and software capable of burning dual
layers, or a program like DVD Shrink.

What you can do, which is similar to what I do, is to
create smaller movies. Dump your video into the timeline
and trim front and back to make a small movie. Save the
movie as a DV-AVI file for DVD burning later. Repeat for
the next section of your original video. Once your DV-AVI
file is saved as multiple DV-AVI files, you can then pull
those back in (if you wish) and put them in the timeline
to make a new full movie with transitions, etc. between
each smaller movie. Then save this new full length movie.
Keep it about an hour long. Because I use MyDVD v4.5, I
import each small movie separately for burning, creating
pseduo chapters. My version doesn't allow me to choose
break points for chapters. I just fade out to black and
fade in from black with each movie. If Roxio allows for
chapter point creation than you can make one long movie
out of the smaller movies. Rendering smaller movies, then
using those to make one large movie, reduces the strain on
the CPU as well.
>-----Original Message-----
>Ok, so this should be realy simple...
>I have a camcorder tape that I captured through my WinTV
card, now I want to
>chop this long tape into individual Clips that I can then
put into my Roxio
>DVD Creator so I can have a nice indexed movie of all of
the things I have
>taped. Here are my questions:
> - once I import the one 2+hr clip and chop it into
logical segments how do
>I save them all as clips? When the Auto tool tried to do
it there was a mess
>(700+ nonsensical clips)
> - Am I correct in using Roxio to burn the DVD so I can
get my DVD menuing
>(It just looks easy)
>
>.
>

ChrisPare
Tue Sep 28 15:15:04 CDT 2004

This is the same process I have been using, however importing the entire
video then chopping out everything but the 5 minute section I need, saving
it, dumping everything and moving on to the the next section is incredibly
time consuming. if I enter in all the breaks at once I think the process
should be able to create all the clips in one pass.
For example, my Daughters Dance Recytle. There must be 20 "Acts", and I
want to create a "Chaptered" DVD so I can skip to an "Act" quickly. I should
be able to import the entire recording, add the 20 break points and let the
processor grind away making the 20 smaller clips (that I can then make into
Chapters on the DVD)
Perhaps this isn't the right tool for the job? Anyone have another way to
do this?

"Steve" wrote:

> First off realize that the clips created by the wizard
> aren't really individual files. Your 2hr movie would still
> be intact as imported. These clips just allow you to build
> your movie easier by giving you smaller segments to work
> with. Your original video is unaffected by clip creation.
> With imported digital video, the clips are created by
> breaks in the timestamp, which signifies a stop/start of
> the camcorder.
>
> Secondly, 2 hrs won't fit on one DVD unless you have a
> dual layer drive and software capable of burning dual
> layers, or a program like DVD Shrink.
>
> What you can do, which is similar to what I do, is to
> create smaller movies. Dump your video into the timeline
> and trim front and back to make a small movie. Save the
> movie as a DV-AVI file for DVD burning later. Repeat for
> the next section of your original video. Once your DV-AVI
> file is saved as multiple DV-AVI files, you can then pull
> those back in (if you wish) and put them in the timeline
> to make a new full movie with transitions, etc. between
> each smaller movie. Then save this new full length movie.
> Keep it about an hour long. Because I use MyDVD v4.5, I
> import each small movie separately for burning, creating
> pseduo chapters. My version doesn't allow me to choose
> break points for chapters. I just fade out to black and
> fade in from black with each movie. If Roxio allows for
> chapter point creation than you can make one long movie
> out of the smaller movies. Rendering smaller movies, then
> using those to make one large movie, reduces the strain on
> the CPU as well.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Ok, so this should be realy simple...
> >I have a camcorder tape that I captured through my WinTV
> card, now I want to
> >chop this long tape into individual Clips that I can then
> put into my Roxio
> >DVD Creator so I can have a nice indexed movie of all of
> the things I have
> >taped. Here are my questions:
> > - once I import the one 2+hr clip and chop it into
> logical segments how do
> >I save them all as clips? When the Auto tool tried to do
> it there was a mess
> >(700+ nonsensical clips)
> > - Am I correct in using Roxio to burn the DVD so I can
> get my DVD menuing
> >(It just looks easy)
> >
> >.
> >
>