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Post by coache67 on Dec 15, 2006 9:57:30 GMT -6
We have a great digital video camera, but I was wondering if a dvd camera will make automatic chapter marks for each play? If it does, do the various scouting programs recognize the cut and make the cutting of the film easier?
Does anybody use the DVD camera and what is your experience? Do you like it better than a tape camera?
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Post by utchuckd on Dec 15, 2006 10:10:53 GMT -6
We'e got a mini-dv camera. We use proscout and it picks up the pause marks between plays and automatically cuts the film after we dump it into the computer. Most of the software packages probably have this too or are not far from it.
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Post by coachjd on Dec 15, 2006 10:15:24 GMT -6
correct me if I'm wrong you tech guru's, but any type of digital video will put a mark at the beginning of each play, as long as the person doing the recording pauses or stops the record mode in between each play. (mini-dv, digital 8mm, and dvd). We use TD Video on the Mac and when we upload our video we use imovie. It takes the length of the film to inport the video, and it is inported by each play. (if our film guy does it right!!) Then we we input it to TD Video it takes less than 20 sec. to input if the files from imovie to TD Video if they are on the same hard drive.
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Post by Mav on Dec 15, 2006 10:59:02 GMT -6
We have a great digital video camera, but I was wondering if a dvd camera will make automatic chapter marks for each play? If it does, do the various scouting programs recognize the cut and make the cutting of the film easier? Does anybody use the DVD camera and what is your experience? Do you like it better than a tape camera? Like others stated, the digital camcorder writes a timestamp when the cameraman hits the pause button. The software that imports it into your computer has to understand this and create the 'clips'. I believe almost all video editing software (football or otherwise) written in the last several years will recogize the timestamps -- if configured correctly. The problem with DVD cameras (and any compressed format in general) is it's very difficult for editing software work with. I don't think any football editing software can use it as input. |
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Post by midlinemoney on Dec 15, 2006 12:11:16 GMT -6
what is td video? how much does it cost? how do you like the mac for working with scouting programs?
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Post by coachjd on Dec 15, 2006 12:41:23 GMT -6
td video is made by the same company that makes playmaker pro. We use macs because that is what our school uses so it saved us $$$$ in not having to purchase computers and hard drive space. The cost is 895.00 Here is the web site. www.bwsoftware.com |
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Post by coache67 on Dec 15, 2006 15:35:56 GMT -6
Thanks for the responses guys. We use Proscout as well . . . so can anyone help me format Proscout correctly b/c we have been cutting everything by hand.
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Post by coache67 on Dec 15, 2006 15:38:08 GMT -6
Well, sort of by hand - don't want to offend any of the master coaches out there!
I can't imagine what it was like to do this on 16mm!
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Post by Mav on Dec 15, 2006 15:51:03 GMT -6
Thanks for the responses guys. We use Proscout as well . . . so can anyone help me format Proscout correctly b/c we have been cutting everything by hand. Be sure you're using version 5 of Proscout. When you're done capturing the video from your DV camcorder, it'll ask you if you want to use the autocuts(or something similar) -- answer 'yes'. |
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Post by coache67 on Dec 17, 2006 21:16:36 GMT -6
Thanks Mav, got it all figured out now. I have been skipping one simple step that would have saved us tons of time during the season!
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