I wish they had the option to scene detect by content as well as date/time. Generally, I don't use it much, because I don't like working with the many separate files. IF I need that, I will do a log and batch capture.

Dave T2

In a word: useless. Again, being a world-class nitpicker, I'm never happy with the footage as-is, so I see no benefit in having it chopped up into tiny pieces, when I know I'm going to chop it up myself anyway. <wink>

Started out using scene detection thinking it would speed up the editing process...but it didn't. I just import the whole file, set it on the timeline and go at it.
Steve

Having come to this through software that didn't do ANY Scene Detection, only captured one massive scene, I can tell you that I feel all warm and cuddly about the fine scene detection in Vegas. There are many instances when I wish to process a scene OUTSIDE Vegas and bring it back in. I don't want an hour long scene, I want the little bitty one that Vegas numbered XXX and is only 14.6 seconds long. Boy, it beats the heck out of NOT having it.

I use Scenalyzer Live which detects scenes on a 60 min. digital tape in about 5 minutes. It does a great job and I would not want to work without scene detection. If I want I can just lay split scenes together that I feel should have stayed together, but so far this has not happened.
Barry

I'm pretty much ambivalent about it. Most of the material my clients bring in is on VHS, so scene detection does nothing anyway. When i am working with DV source, often the tapes contain a very low ratio of material to be captured and i'm pretty much grabbing a scene at a time here and there, so once again scene detection doesn't help much.

I'd love to see an option to allow "scene changes" based on user interaction, just like being able to drop a marker while recording audio. I'd also like to see this interaction be allowed to either start a new file, or drop a marker in the .avi file and keep on going. Perhaps the "start new file" option would even allow two choices: one to save the last captured segment and another to toss it ... on the fly while the tape keeps running. That would be a lot more useful for me.

Chienworks YOU'VE done it again! . . . The idea 'bout having some form of "intuitive" way of seeing and reading the footage "on-the-fly" etc etc . . is truly something to be wished for. Dropppppping markers on the scene - remember our discussion oooo months back now - is something akin to that - yes? It's something like "crayoning" over a scene - similar when a stills photographer makes those large red marks on a contact strip to select THE shots - yes? Almost in a slapdash, but in a meant way - am I making sense? I think we have more ability to take in images than EVEN NLE can provide - oooh is that blasphemous? But I think so . . . NLE is a step up from LE - but it aint the final incarnation of VidEd. I wish I could write s/w programmes! . .. . hmmmm maybe not. I know what I'm thinking . . . maybe having to marshall my work in a capture session, actually makes me think in a back in an LE way. Don't know . . . need to think this through.

It's 2:00am - Been helping a colleague to setup his Dell Inspiron - I'm tired . . .. zzzzzzzzz . .. seeyah . .. . grazzzzzz i e