"Olympiad" wrote in message
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":::Jerry::::" wrote in message
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"Olympiad" wrote in message
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Hi,

A while ago on here (possibly over a year, maybe even two) someone
recommended a tool that would analyse and split a DV file into scenes
based
on either timecode and /or frame content.
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It's call tape logging and uses a pencil and paper.....

Scene detection software is for wimps ! :~)

[ grins and ducks ]


Too right - I mean, why spend 30 mins capturing scenes automatically when
you could spend hours having fun doing it manually. It's like all these
other new-fangled inventions that dare to try to save time like dish
washers
and the like, and computers that use Windows instead of good old fashioned
dos command line. Who invented video anyway - lazy good for nothings -
nothing wrong with a canvas and set of paints.


Err, but who would use a washing machine that shrunk some cloths and
stretched others, resulting in someone having to spend hours putting it all
right after - you can log a tape in the time it takes to watch and you're
not going to attempt to edit without first finding out what you have on tape
and were it is - with tape logging you also only capture what you need and
not loads of what you only want to delete after capture.


Seriously, I just fnd it convenient a lot of the time. I know it's not
the
'professional way' but I tend to capture full tapes at a time, rather than
batch capture etc, and normally when I pause the camera I want a break in
the scene anyway. I'm not sure it actually saves me much time, as I go in
and edit each clip separately anyway, it just somehow seems to make the
editing more manageable.


Sounds like it !...