I'm capturing a bunch of Hi8 (i.e., analog 8mm) video tapes to my hard drive
using MM2. When I capture these over a composite video cable I get a wmv
file (about 2gb in size) and import properly creates clips. When I instead
capture these videos over a firewire cable (it's a Digital8 camera) I get a
dv-avi file (about 20gb in size) but when MM2 attempts to import the file the
progress indicator climbs to 100% but no clips are produced. I *think* this
is because the DV-AVI stream does not contain any markers to indicate clip
transition points since the original source content is analog.

I'd like to be able to capture as DV-AVI, but I'd also like to have clips
automatically created by MM2. Is there a way to tell MM2 to import a DV-AVI
in the same way it imports a wmv - that is don't try to look for clip markers
in the DV-AVI stream but instead inspect the actual scenese of the video and
heuristically determine where clip transitions should occur?

Thanks,
Doug

Doug,

You've got the process down pretty good, but there's no way to tell Movie
Maker to use changes in visual scenes when capturing from a digital
camcorder by firewire...
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"doug_laundry" <doug_laundry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm capturing a bunch of Hi8 (i.e., analog 8mm) video tapes to my hard
> drive
> using MM2. When I capture these over a composite video cable I get a wmv
> file (about 2gb in size) and import properly creates clips. When I
> instead
> capture these videos over a firewire cable (it's a Digital8 camera) I get
> a
> dv-avi file (about 20gb in size) but when MM2 attempts to import the file
> the
> progress indicator climbs to 100% but no clips are produced. I *think*
> this
> is because the DV-AVI stream does not contain any markers to indicate clip
> transition points since the original source content is analog.
>
> I'd like to be able to capture as DV-AVI, but I'd also like to have clips
> automatically created by MM2. Is there a way to tell MM2 to import a
> DV-AVI
> in the same way it imports a wmv - that is don't try to look for clip
> markers
> in the DV-AVI stream but instead inspect the actual scenese of the video
> and
> heuristically determine where clip transitions should occur?
>
> Thanks,
> Doug