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Former user wrote on 9/18/2016, 12:51 PM

Are you talking about blanks on the timeline, or segments of a source or finished video? There are tools (Timeline Tools is one of them) that will detect blank spaces on a timeline.

lee-al wrote on 9/18/2016, 1:10 PM

Yes, in the timeline. When detecting scenes I come up with many blank scenes and am looking for a way to select and delete these blank scenes. Trying to ditgatize some old home viedos that are on vhs tapes.

Former user wrote on 9/18/2016, 1:33 PM

Don't know about anything that will do that. The filter would need to be able to determine what you consider to be video and what is just blank video. Since analog video, especially VHS has a lot of noise in the signal, that might be hard to do. But some people on this forum are quite knowledgable about digitizing and cleaning up video transfers, maybe they will offer some help.

NickHope wrote on 9/18/2016, 1:41 PM

I have heard of AviSynth scripts that detect black scenes for this purpose. I think John Meyer may have tried one once. BIG can of worms that could cost you a lot of time in learning curve and testing.

Wolfgang S. wrote on 9/18/2016, 3:23 PM

There are scripts in Vegas that had been able to do that, I think. 

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OldSmoke wrote on 9/18/2016, 3:25 PM

Vegasaur has the "Project Audit" that will dedect those blanks and many other issues a project might have.

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NickHope wrote on 9/19/2016, 12:23 AM

I think he's talking about blank (e.g. black) sections within events on the timeline, not gaps between events. Vegasaur and free scripts can easily check for the latter. AviSynth sorcery probably needed for the former.

Gary James wrote on 9/19/2016, 7:52 AM

The free Timeline Tools Vegas Pro Extension has Optical Scene Detection capability that can examine a video and recognize similar scenes by bracketing them with Region Markers.   Blank Scenes will also be maked with Region Markers.   After detection, you can delete unwanted scenes (Regions)  from the Vegas timeline..

Here's the explanation of the feature in the user's guided.
http://www.nfatoys.com/moasoftwarellc/TLT_Guide.htm#Optical_Scene_Detect_on_Highlighted_Events