Edward it was our friend's comment: "I have a lot of old footage that i'd rather not sit through and cut into sub clips manually" - that made me think that these subbies are wanting to be of constantly varying length. I'd suggest Excalibur or UliS, does Excalibur do this? Excalibur makes a good job of making same length Marker spacing? Yes?

For "On-the-fly" I'd Scrub, hit "R" and name and move on to the next region. Failing that make subbies.

So maybe, a Markers to Regions or Subbies. Thinking deeper, maybe JUST Hit the R key and be done? Also the Regions are globally available.

Grazie

Guess it depends on what is meant by "consistent reel" - I took that to mean maybe there needed to be a split every 5 minutes. If looking for tape stops/starts, that's a totally different story. One option would be optical detection in Scenalyzer, I suppose.

Great minds Edward . . great minds . . I phoned Henry with JUST that idea and gave him a link to Andreas' site.

Grazie

Or - just as another choice - AVCutty. It includes both optical as data-code based scene detection and some nice management features. Handles AVI only though.

Marco

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> I am hoping that there is some form of automatic process that can slice footage into subclips based on tape breaks/cuts.

What you want to do is capture with a utility that has scene detection. Vegas will detect scenes in DV footage based on timecode but not on analog footage. ScenalyzerLIVE (as Edward suggested) will make cuts based on analog scene changes as you capture. There is a free version that will do this after the fact (i.e., you capture and then run it through the Scenalyzer free and it separates the footage into subclips based on scene changes.)

I would download the freeware version of Scenalyzer. (link is right under the User's Manual link and says "old version") if you've already captured this footage or ScenalyzerLIVE if you haven't.

~jr