Review : Scenalyser Live !

One of the recurring timeconsuming tasks when editing is capturing the actual footage to harddisk. Often you have so much footage that it is hard to manage. Besides this , there is also the question where to store all of it. DV footage tends to eat a lot of space. If only there were a tool that would automatically capture a tape , split it into scenes ( also taking filesize limits into account ) and delete the junk we don't want ...

Well . Your quest is over. Scenalyser Live does all of this and more !

Just another capturing tool ... or not ?
Device control
Capturing
Streamtypes
Tape index capture
Batch capture
Simple capture
Conclusion

1. Just another capturing tool .. or not ?

Scenalyer ( main windows hot below ) has a very intuitive control interface. Top left show the camera output window.. This shows you the live videofeed when capturing or playing video. Below that is an input source selector and a kind of assitance window. Depending on where you are in the program this window shows different options. On the right is the harddisk browser showing the captured video.

Scenalyser will work with any DV based camera and offers full device control.once you connect a camera the camera control panel changes to show the basic controls . Rewind ,play, fast forward, pause.

2. Device control

Scenalyser allows you full control over the capturing device. All standard camera functions ( Ff , REW , STARt PAUSE and Stop )are accessible. Depending on your camera model more features may be available. During camera control both audio and video are streamed in and shown in the preview window. Even during fast forward viewing the image is present.

3. Capturing the stream

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