Posted by Ken Maltby on 02/09/07 22:10

"Gene" <genes@wildblue.net> wrote in message
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> Good advice , Ken - I agree 100%.
>
> I too was impressed with VideoReDo.
> Quick-Stream-Fix worked miracles sometimes.
> Ad-Detective actually "automatically" removed commercials from
> DVR recordings of TV satellite stuff. It zapped ~ 95%+ of them,
> which is amazing. It just looks for the black fade-in & fade-out
> frames to know where the commercials are located, which means
> that some night scenes are mistakenly removed. The grandkids
> never knew if some of the toon was missing, and never lost their
> train-of-thought when interrupted by commercials - worked the
> same with me too :-)
>

I never use the Ad-Detective feature, it is just too easy to do
with out it.



> FYI - I had a long chat with one of their employees over the phone
> a few weeks ago. I was complaining that all I want to do is this:
>
> 1. Place a DVD-+RW in a DVD (USB2) burner on my PC & close the door.
> (This DVD+-RW contains from 2 to 6 hours of TV programming, with
> commercials)
>
> 2. Place a blank DVD-R in the 2nd DVD burner (IDE)
>
> 3. Run VideoReDo and select an option that would write out a new
> finalized DVD-R with all commercials removed, then open both
> DVD drive doors & ask me if I want to place in two more DVDs &
> do it again - all with ZERO operator intervention. The DVD would be 99%+
> full.
> This is not rocket science, but the software companies
> can't seem to understand that some of the public just want simple
> solutions. I could care less about editing scene by scene, etc. in
> this case.
>
> The good news from the conversation was that the employee at VideoReDo
> "hinted" that VideoReDo would soon have "BURNER" code implemented into
> the next release. He would not be more specific than that, but an
> "All-in-One"
> with some dumb features per above would make them rich, IMHO. I would
> buy a copy for sure. TMPGEnc could also easily write this type of
> application,
> if they wanted to do so. Either company could grab the lead, but it's a
> management
> decision. My best guess is that these companies are still controlled by
> coders. It's like the old TI, where the engineers selected the products to
> sell -
> you get wonderful technology that is not user friendly, or marketing
> savvy.
>

You Sir, are the Devil! I have no problem with someone making
"Idiotware", "One Button" programs, just leave our useful tools
alone. It is not "user friendly" to remove, or make hard to find,
the controls that a knowledgeable user can use to great advantage.
You seem to feel that technical software should be made to
address the attention span of the "Stoned Slacker" generation.

> Another dumb all-in-one app that I want is to simply plug my camcorder
> into the PC via firewire, place in a DVD-R & come back to an opened
> DVD tray containing a finalized DVD-R that has been verified via
> rewinding the tape. The DVD-R would contain the tape (whatever the length)
> and would have no more than 1% unused capacity - that is, the
> maximum quality possible for this specific tape of unknown length.
> Geesh, this should be a piece of cake - all the code is out there now.
> Unfortunately, it's not all in one program yet. But it's only a matter of
> time...:-)
>

And you are welcome to it, just leave us tools that allow us
to make use of our understanding of the technology.


> BTW - while I'm thinking ~ fully automating repetitive PC tasks, would
> someone post a link to a freeware program that records your mouse &
> keyboard
> clicks & generates a batch file thing for running multiple Windows apps?
> Some
> years ago, I had what was called a "Keyboard Macro Recorder" that worked
> great for repetitive tasks, but I lost it along the way. I did a Google,
> but did not
> find anything that looked good, and free:-) I'll pay, but there should be
> a lot of
> free stuff out there by now - just can't fine one.
>
> Thanks,
> Gene
>

I just Googled "keyboard macro" and there seems to be a
number of such programs, many are free.

Or you could learn a little simple scripting.

Luck;
Ken

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