Scene Detection Help Creator 2009

[PardalisGirl]

Hi....I just started trying to use Creator 2009. I have a 15 minute .MGP clip that was taken with my digital camera. I used the Media Selector option to use the Auto Scene Detection process. It appears to run through the whole 15 minute clip and break it into about 30 scenes. It shows them as thumbnails. Per the directions I click OK to save the scenes. It then goes back to the main Media Selector screen. The green arrow is on the lower right hand corner like it says it will be. But when I click the arrow it has the whole 15 minutes, not the individual scenes. I've tried it multiple times and tried it after manually selecting scenes. I can not get it to actually save the detected or picked scenes so that I can drag and drop them for further editing. This is very frustrating! Thanks for your help Catherine

[PardalisGirl]

I want to make little "movies" for YouTube that feature my chameleons (My user name Pardalis is a chameleon species). I am putting panels with text between the scenes (chameleons can't talk). I've become good at using that manual method and can continue using it. It just bugs me that a feature I am supposed to have does not actually work. It makes me wonder why. Overall, I love the product. I look forward to becoming more sophisticated with the effects as I work with it.

 

[sknis]

I want to make little "movies" for YouTube that feature my chameleons (My user name Pardalis is a chameleon species). I am putting panels with text between the scenes (chameleons can't talk). I've become good at using that manual method and can continue using it. It just bugs me that a feature I am supposed to have does not actually work. It makes me wonder why. Overall, I love the product. I look forward to becoming more sophisticated with the effects as I work with it.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by "a feature I am supposed to have". Please explain.

 

Perhaps you will have better luck with text if you use the lite Version of PhotoShow that comes with Creator 2009. You can even add text balloons !. Go to the Home page, select "ONLINE" go through all the other garbage that is there to create and upload a slide show to the PhotoShow site. You can have it converted to mp4 and upload the video to YouTube.

[Jim_Hardin]

It is a little strange until you learn how to use the software.

 

In VW you can drag the Scenes from the Media Selector only when you have the My Media tab selected. (it is the little black arrow that indicate scenes. The green arrow is Play (preview)

 

 

Click the Black Arrow and the scenes will show

 

In Folder View, scenes are not available.

 

 

I never rely on letting it auto detect my scenes! I always manually select the scenes.

 

[Jim_Hardin]

Of course they can talk but you have to listen closely

 

There are a lot of How To and Tips & Tricks that cover most of what you want to do as well as things you haven’t even thought of yet! Browse this as well as the EMC 10 and EMC 9 forums

 

[PardalisGirl]

Hummm.......I have that My Media tab selected just like you show in your screen presentation. I have never seen the black arrow though. Just the green one. I can let it auto detect or manually detect the scenes my self after right clicking the video file in the Media Selector. Once they are selected and shown individually on the right, I click "ok". It goes back to the initial Media Selectory screen with the view for My Media tab. There is only a green arrow. No black one. You can click on the My Media tab again (even though it is there by default) and you get the same thing. No black arrow. I was wondering if it is a software bug. I searched the Roxio site and Googled it to see if I could find this issue. No luck. I ended up using the Trim feature to divide the clip up into scenes myself. I suppose I can continue to do this, but wonder why I can't get the auto/manual scene detection feature to work under in the Media selector area. Thanks for trying to help me. It looks like you are very experienced. It was nice to get a response to my question. Any other thoughts you have would be greatly appreciated Catherine

 

[bimicher]

Hummm.......I have that My Media tab selected just like you show in your screen presentation. I have never seen the black arrow though. Just the green one. I can let it auto detect or manually detect the scenes my self after right clicking the video file in the Media Selector. Once they are selected and shown individually on the right, I click "ok". It goes back to the initial Media Selectory screen with the view for My Media tab. There is only a green arrow. No black one. You can click on the My Media tab again (even though it is there by default) and you get the same thing. No black arrow. I was wondering if it is a software bug. I searched the Roxio site and Googled it to see if I could find this issue. No luck. I ended up using the Trim feature to divide the clip up into scenes myself. I suppose I can continue to do this, but wonder why I can't get the auto/manual scene detection feature to work under in the Media selector area. Thanks for trying to help me. It looks like you are very experienced. It was nice to get a response to my question. Any other thoughts you have would be greatly appreciated Catherine

 

Actually using the manual Split feature (what you are calling Trim) is a much better way to create scenes just like Jim said. With the automatic you wind up with too many or not enough scenes. What do you want to do with the scenes?

[sknis]

Hummm.......I have that My Media tab selected just like you show in your screen presentation. I have never seen the black arrow though. Just the green one. I can let it auto detect or manually detect the scenes my self after right clicking the video file in the Media Selector. Once they are selected and shown individually on the right, I click "ok". It goes back to the initial Media Selectory screen with the view for My Media tab. There is only a green arrow. No black one. You can click on the My Media tab again (even though it is there by default) and you get the same thing. No black arrow. I was wondering if it is a software bug. I searched the Roxio site and Googled it to see if I could find this issue. No luck. I ended up using the Trim feature to divide the clip up into scenes myself. I suppose I can continue to do this, but wonder why I can't get the auto/manual scene detection feature to work under in the Media selector area. Thanks for trying to help me. It looks like you are very experienced. It was nice to get a response to my question. Any other thoughts you have would be greatly appreciated Catherine

 

Perhaps this will help.

[Jim_Hardin]

Perhaps this will help.

Thank you Steve - that shoud do the trick!

[sknis]

I hope so.