Great scene detection - how do I take advantage of it?

[Geraint Edwards]

I have tried demo versions of about 9 commercial video editing
application and MovieMaker 2 beats them all in my mind because of on
really neat feature - scene detection.

Many applications use the time & date or a digital recording to split
scenes but MM is the only one that records this useful information with
the scene.

Has anyone figured out a way of transferring this information to DVD?
In other words, to use the time and date of recording (or at least the
date) as the text for the menu or chapter points?

Geraint

 

[Rehan]

What is the realtionship between first part of your message and the last?
Scene detection has nothing to do with date/time. it is done by comparing
each frame of the movie with the next one, and if the the inter frame
difference is large enough, it is considered as a change of scene.

Where does the date and time information comes into it ?

Even if you could get such infomration, it wont be easy to pass it on to the
dvd auhtoring program from within MM. Since MM itself does not have any dvd
making capabilities. An external program is required to do your final DVD
authoring and at which point you have to manually specify chapter points.

Rehan

 

[Geraint Edwards]

Most digital video capture applications allow scene detection using the
old fashioned frame difference method or based on the time and date of
the clip. They are, however, rather badly designed to my mind, in that
they drop the information about the time and date the clip was filmed as
soon as they have used it to split the scenes. MM is the only one that I
know of that tells the user what the time and date actually are .

The whole point of the exercise is to avoid manually specifying the
chapter points and then manually labelling them with the time and date
of filming. MM does most of the work for me so I guess the question is
whether there is a way of exporting a collection of scenes (with labels)
from MM to a suitable DVD authoring package as opposed to a single AVI
(or Microsoft equivalent) which then has to be split by hand.

At present the only solution I have found is to capture the footage
using a DVD authoring package/video editor that splits the scenes by
time and date and then capture the same digital footage in MM. I then
write down the time and date given to me by MM) on a piece of paper and
then manually input them into the commercial package :-(.

Geraint