Vegas won't capture individual video clips

[Bob Safay]

All of a sudden my Vegas 8.0c stopped capturing individual video clips. No matter what I do or what settings I try Vegas wants to capture all the clips in one long continous clip. I even went into options/properties/capture and reset all the defalts and made sure that the box for Enable DV scene detection was checked. Any ideas? Bob

[Mike Kujbida]

Make sure the clock on your camcorder is properly set.
If it's more than a few years old, the internal battery may need to be replaced.
Then set the clock again.

[Mike Hammond]

Hi Bob,

Just in case that doesn't work, try using freeware CapDVHS. I used it when Vegas started freaking out about capturing and I've never looked back.

[Bob Safay]

Mike K. , I'll bet that was the problem. I was shooting in a remote area in Washington, already lugged the XL-2 and tripod 1/4 mile onto a mudflat. Got all set up and got the indicator that the battary was dead and reset the date and time. As I was in no position to walk back and drive to a store I shot 52 minutes with the date/time battary dead. Lessons learned.

Mike H., I will try that, thanks to both of you. Bob

[Edward Troxel]

Date/Time not set will definitely do that as all the various programs look at skips in the date/time to determine when to split. Having said that (if this is DV footage), Scenalyzer Live also has an optical scene detection method.