New Scenalyzer.

[Anatoly Neverov]

I already bought it. Wonderful, no other words. Here it is: http://scenalyzer.com/sclive.html.

The features of scLive include:

- scLive has automatic scene splitting while capturing - each scene is written into its own .avi file: Push capture, come back an hour later and the whole tape is now a few hundred scenes on your harddrive.

- scenes are displayed with pictures and can be deleted while or after capturing

- scLive writes both, type 1 dv-avi files for newer editing programs or type 2 files compatible with older versions

- scLive has 'smart batchcapturing': an index of the dv-tape is created in fast-forward (takes aroung 5 mins for a 60 mins tape - depending on your camera). Then you see pictures of all scenes on the tape and after choosing which scenes you want they are automatically, quickly and frame-accurately captured. Normally scLive rewinds to the first scene and then plays or fast-forwards to all further scenes without any more rewinding or 'heavy' positioning.

- 'smart batchcapturing' can position the tape correctly even if the tape has 'interrupted timecodes'

- scLive exports stills directly from your camera or from your .avi files quickly by pressing 'F2' - no questions asked, formats are .jpg and .bmp in 3 possible resolutions with optional deinterlacing, cropping and compression factor. It was probably never so easy to get high-quality pictures from your videos to quickly send them by e-mail or keep them for further reference on a cd-rom.

- time-lapse capturing with variable factor: capture a whole 60 minutes tape into a e.g. 1 minute-file

- scLive's advanced buffering-structure makes it very 'dropped-frame'-resistant and nicely behaved to other programs running at the same time.

- scene-detection can be switched off and a whole tape can be captured into a single .avi file or multiple .avi files with 1GB, 2GB or 4GB each

- 16:9 support.

Some advanced features of scLive are very hard- and software-dependent. For example: some cameras and drivers don't provide correct timecode or device-mode informations. Some drivers don't allow device-control.

- scLive works with NTSC and PAL.

- scLive will probably NOT work with any of the Canopus Cards (Canopus uses a proprietary capture-driver and unfortunately does not want to provide information about how to access these cards)

- matrox and pinnacle cards may be supported soon, please check this website again!

This software is for DV cameras.

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Anatoly Neverov
Minsk, Belarus

[KuroNeko]

Does a similar software exist to use with Marvels & analog capture?

I.e. does this sw analyze the video to detect scene changes or are there codes on the DV tape that allow this?

Neko

[Hulk]

Can't get it to work with my hardware:

Pyro pro dv card
Canon Optura Pi
ATI AIW 128 video

No go.

Any suggestions?

[hapz]

I haven't had much luck with Scenalyzer, dies every time, no matter what. More violently in Win98 than in Win2k, but the result is the same ;(

I also tested HandySaw. That program works, but many scene changes go undetected.

On the other hand, VideoWave 4 works very well. But it does not create separate files, just a "perfect" storyboard. One could get the clips out to use elsewhere, but only with a very labor intensive effort.

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Harald

[hapz]

I haven't had much luck with Scenalyzer, dies every time, no matter what. More violently in Win98 than in Win2k, but the result is the same ;(

I also tested HandySaw. That program works, but many scene changes go undetected.

On the other hand, VideoWave 4 works very well. But it does not create separate files, just a "perfect" storyboard. One could get the clips out to use elsewhere, but only with a very labor intensive effort.

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Harald

[Anatoly Neverov]

DV video has timecode. As far as I understand, the Scenalyzer uses it for cutting in scenes. But Miro dc10plus does the same, and very good, and works with analog video. I heard (didn't try) that Windows Movie Maker also cuts in scenes. VideoWave as well, but I don't know if it does it by timecode or no. Maybe somebody can advice anything else?

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Anatoly Neverov
Minsk, Belarus