Idea: Scene Change Detector To Create Clips

[mikeytown2]

This last week, I edited Hours and Hours of video footage (HDV, DV, VHS, 8mm), in a very short amount of time. I usually use AviSynth to do all my editing (I use it as my only NLE), but because of the time constraint, I went back to Windows Movie Maker; it has the Create Clips option, and a faster work flow. The constrained output size of WMM (720x480) wasn't an issue since the final output was DVD.

My question is, is there an AviSynth script/plugin that can replicate/do better then WMM's create clip? The closest thing i saw was SceneDetectAVS
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1094480#post1094480
This would be helpful for VHS and 8mm formats, except for the xvid part.

HDV and DV have meta data. The use of DVInfo http://avisynth.org.ru/docs/english/externalfilters/dvinfo.htm could be helpful for finding scene changes (break points in recordings, via date/time). Is there a HDV plugin?


Is there anything out there that can auto generate clips? It should probably generate another avs file with all the separate clips; thus a multi step editing process. Thanks in advance for your advice and input.


EDIT: Found more tools
Avi (DV) Data Analyzer
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=114669

HDVInfo v0.93
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=110021