Uli Plank wrote:Thanks for describing another great solution.
So, I may assume that you have to select a bin where the clips should go beforehand, just like on the Mac (assuming you have used it on a PC)?
Yes. Otherwise, the split clips will just go to whatever randomly-selected bin you're currently on. I would like for Scene Detection to allow you to change bins AFTER you've done the scene detecting, but it unfortunately doesn't work that way at the moment.
As I wrote before, if the TO would use the timeline tool for cut detection instead of the one for media import, he'll get full flexibility anyway.
Not for the way I work. I can think of a half-dozen reasons why the Media Pool version of Scene Detect is better, particularly in terms of pruning bad shots, setting a threshold for detection range, exporting .SC and .EDLs, and also visually being able to check the scene detection accurately. I've been cutting up files for color correction for more than 40 years, because this is how we worked in film remastering from the beginning of time.
I don't dispute that if you're on (say) a TV reality show or a documentary where you get a last-minute replacement of a new 1-minute segment, and it's not yet been split,
then it'd be great to just cut it within the timeline. But that doesn't gibe with what I do. A lot of times for commercials or promos, I'll just cut it manually by using command-\, particularly if it's a :30 second or 1-minute piece with only about 25-30 cuts total. I can do it very, very quickly, and it's extremely accurate. But for dealing with long form using flattened files, I think the method I describe is a better way to go.