HDRCX115 Records Videos in Multiple Clips?

[canveyboy1972]

Hi,

I just bought this cam, which i love. Its my first HD camcorder and it records onto a memory card. But for some reason my recorded videos are split into hundreds of little videos. I recorded my daughters birthday party the other day which amounts to 45 minutes of footage but instead of one long 45 minute video i have about 30 videos totalling 45 minutes.

Is there anyway i can stop the cam from splitting this? Its almost like its splitting scenes but every scene is split into 5 or 6 segments.

Is a new clip created everytime i hit the record button? if so, can i change this?

i just want to download one long video from the cam to my PC for editing, not hundreds of little clips.

Any help much appreciated.

Steve

Message was edited by: canveyboy1972

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[Watashiwateshdes]

Hi Steve

The way the non tape based Handycam works is creating a new video file every time you start/stop the recording. Sadly there is no setting or adjustment to alter this.

Third party programs such as Sony Vegas and Adobe Premier have the ability to join/merge clips together into one long stream (trial versions are available) so you would have to do this every time.

The only other way is if you had a video input for composite (red, white and yellow), you could play the footage in one go whilst recording in real time to your PC but would not be HD.

Sorry that its not much help but hope the insight is appreciated.

[canveyboy1972]

Hi,

Many thanks for taking the time to reply. Thats a shame. I have Adobe Premiere so i guess i'll just have to stitch them all together - bit of a pain but i'd rather have HD video at the end of the day.

My only problem is that when i place all the clips together on a timeline there is not a clean transition from one clip to the next - almost like a small 'jump' into the next clip - not clean at all, so i have to cut the end and beginning of each clip to make all the clips run smoothly into one another. Either that or i have to cross fade everything!

Oh well, thanks again for the info!

Regards,

Steve.