Unable To Create Auto Scenes From Avi File

[barbarino]

I am a new user to Edius. I am running trial version 4.51c. My issue is that I cannot find a way to do auto scene detection when capturing from an existing avi file on my hard drive. I am sure it must be possible as other basic editing packages can do this. I can work out how to achieve it if capturing from a DV tape but can't find a way of doing it from an AVI file. Please help. Thanks Steve

[Rusty]

Sorry Steve,

Scene detection is a capture thing only!

[barbarino]

Thanks Rusty for your quick response. I guess that settles it for me. I do find it a little surprising though that cheap editing products like AVS Video Editor have this capability. I guess this means that I have to recapture 20 x 1 hour tapes. Arrggghh.

[Aristotelis]

You can use scenalyzer to scan your avi files and do the scene detection as well...then use the extracted files inside Edius...It will be much faster than recapturing...

[barbarino]

Thanks for the tip. I did try the scenalyzer program however the time it takes to do scene detection and more specifically to commit the changes still takes about 35 minutes which is a whole lot longer than the few seconds which AVS takes to do the same job. Cheers Steve

[antonsvideo]

hmmmm

how would any software know where a scene should change, if it is according to my shooting, then I would end up with thousands of clips per hour

are you pointing your camera at the same spot for a long time? in that case, it would make sense

in my case, I am happy with the camera start/stop scene division points

[Rusty]

MS Movie Maker does scene detect, but it's hit and miss.

[Jeff Chandler]

Thanks for the tip. I did try the scenalyzer program however the time it takes to do scene detection and more specifically to commit the changes still takes about 35 minutes which is a whole lot longer than the few seconds which AVS takes to do the same job. Cheers Steve

If I remember correctly, though, the files created are only usable in AVS whereas Scenalyzers are usable in multiple NLE's.