I ave a few tapes taken of a play with no break. 3 for each act over an
hour each. I can't find an option in Premiere Elements 3 to force a new
avi every x minutes when capturing from a camcorder. I have a feeling
there is one in Pinnacle but I don't want to load that onto my PC as it
used to muck up my settings. I have found some software on the web to
split the file after capture but I would prefer to do it during capture.

Margaret

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I ave a few tapes taken of a play with no break. 3 for each act
over an
hour each. I can't find an option in Premiere Elements 3 to force
a new
avi every x minutes when capturing from a camcorder. I have a
feeling
there is one in Pinnacle but I don't want to load that onto my PC
as it
used to muck up my settings. I have found some software on the web
to
split the file after capture but I would prefer to do it during
capture.


Not sure if this is what your doing but...

Were these continuous recordings, rather than starting and stopping
the cameras during each act, if so the best approach is to capturing
each tape as one 'clip' and then lay the three recordings onto
separate tracks and sync all three to a single clear event, use the
best audio track and de-select the other two. Then cut out the shots
you *don't* want.

Jerry wrote:
"Margaret Willmer" wrote in
message ...
I ave a few tapes taken of a play with no break. 3 for each act
over an
hour each. I can't find an option in Premiere Elements 3 to force
a new
avi every x minutes when capturing from a camcorder. I have a
feeling
there is one in Pinnacle but I don't want to load that onto my PC
as it
used to muck up my settings. I have found some software on the web
to
split the file after capture but I would prefer to do it during
capture.

Not sure if this is what your doing but...

Were these continuous recordings, rather than starting and stopping
the cameras during each act, if so the best approach is to capturing
each tape as one 'clip' and then lay the three recordings onto
separate tracks and sync all three to a single clear event, use the
best audio track and de-select the other two. Then cut out the shots
you *don't* want.


Thank you for your reply. They are continuous but unfortunately they
run out of sync over the length. They were all shot on canon camcorders
of varying age. I had the same problem with last year's play!! We
really only have the camcorders for family use, no great filmmakers here.

I also have some footage that was taken on a different night which I
want to slot in. I think that I will have to do the editing scene (or 2)
by scene and render each individually. Then I can put the whole lot
together and the last rendering shouldn't be too long.

Margaret

"Margaret Willmer" wrote
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Jerry wrote:


Were these continuous recordings, rather than starting
and stopping the cameras during each act, if so the best
approach is to capturing each tape as one 'clip' and
then lay the three recordings onto separate tracks and
sync all three to a single clear event, use the best
audio track and de-select the other two. Then cut out
the shots you *don't* want.

Thank you for your reply. They are continuous but
unfortunately they run out of sync over the length.

Jerry's advice will still work, but it will take only a little more work.

When you cut out the shots you don't like, you will be effectively
transforming the tracks into serial collections of clips. As the tracks
drift out of synch you will have to slide the clips around to keep the
speech flowing as you wish. But, if you choose to remove unecessary pauses,
noises, etc., you will do this anyway.

I also have some footage that was taken on a different
night which I want to slot in.

Same basic tactic.

I think that I will have
to do the editing scene (or 2) by scene and render each
individually.

IME it is far better to do as much splitting of tracks into clips as
possible without explicit rendering, as any editing you do may have an
adverse effect on the rendering that has been already done.

Then I can put the whole lot together and the last rendering shouldn't
be too long.

AFAIK, rendering only benefits preview for editing. The whole movie gets
re-rendered for the higher resolution, during the export.