Is there a way to re-capture a pre-existing video (previously captured in Pinnacle Studio) with automatic scene detection in Premiere Pro 2 ?

If I import my Florida Vacation in Premiere Pro 2, it appears as one huge lump instead of being divided into scenes (as in Pinnacle Studio 9) This video is aldready on my hard drive and does not require a "re-capture" from the original tape source.

Thanks

I think you are out of luck my friend. I do not know of a way of importing a single AVI file into Premier Pro so that it automatically slices it up for you as though you had done a scene capture during import.

If you only have a few scenes then you could do some the following manually. Import the clip once for each 'scene'. Set in and out points for the 'scene' and rename the asset (inside Premiere). Repeat for each 'scene'. As far as Premier is concerned you will then have a sperate asset for each scene. Not worth doing for loads of scene changes though.

You may find your most cost effective solution is to simply recapture from teh camera tape inside Premier Pro and click the 'scene detect' checkbox (or whatevere it is called). You'll have what you want then and it'll take atmost an hour per tape whereas the 'logical clips' approach may take you much longer.

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Thanks Alan.

As you can imagine, re-marking In & Out points and re-labelling each scene in an entire vacation would be a very, very time consuming process.

Hmmm...bummer.

Yourr best bet then is to recapture with scene detection on.

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