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Posted by Stuart on 05/26/07 21:54
"Mad Scientist Jr" <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1180196774.786709.100660@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>I have a number of videos of my band playing where we just stuck a
> couple of cameras on a tripod, pointed them at us, and played for an
> hour or two. One camera is a tapeless Aiptek camera and creates a ASF
> file (MPEG4, 640x480, 30fps) and another is a digital camera in video
> mode that creates a MOV file (quicktime, 320x240, 15fps). At this
> point we have accumulated quite a few performances, and I don't really
> have the time (or disk space) to convert these to DV-AVI, load them
> into Premiere, and edit them. Are there any good apps (preferably
> freeware but I'll buy one if it's good + affordable) that will take
> our video files (must work with both the ASF and MOV) and
> automatically split them up into chapters and burn them to a DVD (with
> thumbnails for each chapter)? I really don't care how it splits them
> up - it can just create a new chapter every five minutes. There aren't
> really scene changes - the cameras just stayed on the whole time - but
> it would be a nice bonus if the app could detect changes in the audio
> (ie when the band starts or stops playing) and start new chapters
> based on that - but it's not crucial. Any recommendations or help
> would be much appreciated!
>
ConvertXtoDVD will create chapters every n minutes that you decide but it
won't create thumbnails or detect audio changes etc, just a time based
'next'.
You could split the video file into say 20 minute separate files and add
them sequentially as separate titles to allow more discrimination. Womble
or VideRedo will, as an editor, split up the file into chunks based on scene
changes and in the case of Womble also take into account audio changes.
Good luck, let us know what you solution is..
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