I am a new user of Rescue Your Videotapes 4. Is there a way to manually create points on a movie to create scenes? I imagine this being somewhat like the Cut icon/buttom where I could scroll to a point in a move and click something to make that a the start of a new scene, but so far that is only in my imagination since I can locate a way to do this.
Forget the automatic scene detection because it creates thousand of new scenes when I want only a couple dozen or so.
Hi,
Rescue your Videotapes is really a product that is designed for simplicity and ease of use. It has a pretty good USB capture device and a very easy to use interface to allow some basic editing and video enhancement. It is not a full blown video editor. What you are describing in terms of placing or creating scene markers is really a function of products that are focused at a broader range of video editing features.
Did you buy the wrong product? Probably not because you needed the USB capture device to actually get your old analog tapes into a digital format. I recently purchased a video capture device for about $50 US and that is pretty much all it does and it is just OK. Yes it came with some software, but that was almost useless.
I think that even though you are new, your needs may already be beyond the capability of the software. The question you are asking is really one that will easily be solved with a full featured video editing application. Movie Edit Pro 2013 could be a good answer for you as if you are already moving to the more sophisticated level of editing in terms of what you are thinking, it is only a matter of time before you want even more features.
I do not work for Magix, I am a professional Video Editor, and I do have a lot of experience using virtually every consumer and many professional video editing products on the market. The Magix products are much more stable than most and the value for money is actually outstanding. I use Movie Edit Pro for all of my client video productions because it works, it does not crash the way some of the others do, and it has virtually all of the features that I need. I actually own products from Adobe, Corel, Sony, CyberLink, Roxio, and Pinnacle (in the consumer category) and a number of others in the professional category, but I still get the best results from Movie Edit Pro.
Good Luck,
George
Thanks for the info, George. I read your response earlier but just now am thanking you!
Rescue Your Videotapes 4 is mostly adequate for my present needs, although I can certainly see the benefit in obtaining more capable software. RYVT4 has a few quirks, although I don't know if hardware, software, or both. For example, several movies imported from VHS have sections where the video & audio speed up. I guess this is probably at about 1.2-1.5x the normal speed. These episodes are fairly brief, usually no more than 15 seconds, but it happens.
I have a robust computer so I don't think the problem is caused by overtaxing the CPU.
Hi,
If you have a dual or quad core CPU and at least 4GB of ram, you are more than likely not taxing your system unless you have many memory intensive applications running while you are trying to edit your project.
The speed up of your project is a little puzzling to me. My first thought would have been tape stretch, but that would cause a slowdown not a speed up unless the tape was not wound tightly and during playback when the video player hit that spot it suddenly released the tape at a faster rate.
Since I do not use RYVT it is hard for me to offer a solution. If you had Movie Edit Pro, I would suggest that you go in to the timeline view, cut the segment right where it speeds up, and then cut it again where it goes back to normal and use "speed" under video effects to reduce the speed of the video back to what you would like it to be.
George
I do have a quad core 3.0GHZ with 8GB ram.
I watch the movie while recording it in RYVT and it is stable - no speed fluctuation. So the problem is almost certainly within the RYVT hardware and/or software.
I'll need to look into obtaining Movie Edit Pro (or similar) some day. Thanks.