Hello, Gram from FT!
Shadowman, has neatly summed this up but I might try to explain it a little clearer(if that's possible). Based on what you say, you start with a tape which has several different items contained on it. those old camcorders sometimes had the facility of date-stamping shots with date and time of shooting, if that info is present on the recordings, it will help you work out "what's what" on those tapes.
As you've already "captured" the content of one of these tapes, it's a simple matter of pulling the capture onto the timeline, viewing it until you get to the point where you wish to separate one subject from the next, at which point you simply "split" the video on the timeline. A symbol to look for here is two arrows pointing away from an "equal" sign turned on end(rough depiction: <-ll-> ). The material on the timeline after the split can be discarded. You won't lose it altogether, though, as the original "capture" will remain intact in the "media library". All you need to do is give this new short clip a name, and produce it. We'll assume for the moment this was the first item on the tape. Okay, having produced that clip, let's now clear this one off the timeline(highlight it and press delete, it won't be lost, just taken off the timeline, it'll still be in the library, alongside the capture). Pull the capture onto the timeline again, watch for the point where you split to make your first clip. Split there again, then highlight and delete the content before the split, view the content now until you get to the end of the next item, split there and delete after the split, simply repeating the process will separate each item into individual clips.
I did have another idea on how to do this, but after you said that trying to produce a "highlighted range"(orange area between two points) PD wanted to produce entire timeline, that scotched the idea I had. So what was explained in the last paragraph should help.
Cheers!
Neil.
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