AVCutty 3.2

AVCutty è un tool usato per la cattura di video materiale da una DV camera. Salva i video in AVI files.

It also simplifies the splitting of AVI files into the different scenes. It scans the AVI files and detects the scene changes either optically or per DV date stamp. Each scene can be saved into a new AVI file. Because AVCutty does not recompress the video data, the process is lossless. Also it is possible to trim the scenes in a comfortable manner. So, AVCutty is very useful, particularly at the beginning of your video project.



What is AVCutty able to do?
Captures video material via Firewire.
AVCutty is able to find scenes in AVI files automatically (optically or per dv datestamp).
It scans through the AVI files and detects scene changes.
Allows you to manually split AVI files into scenes.
Allows you to save each scene into a new, separate AVI file.
The process is lossless.
Sorting of scenes, using scene groups.
Storyboard view.
Provides easy and convenient trimming of scenes.
"Mini-Editing-System": it is possible to save the defined scenes in a given order into one AVI file (eg. for export to the camera).
Exports scenelist (EDL/CSV/AVS).
Generates a scene index of the defined scenes or the AVIs in a directory including thumbnails, using editable layout templates.
Splitts of AVI files after N frames or N seconds.
Saves frames as BMP.
Supports different languages (German, English at the moment).
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What is AVCutty not able to do?
You can use AVCutty to cut AVI files with the common codecs (M-JPEG, DV, Indeo...). It is not for MPEG files. For good results, each frame in the AVI file has to be a keyframe. Some codecs (e.g. DivX) have per default one keyframe for each N frames. In this case you should change the settings of the encoder. Furthermore your AVI files should use the PCM audio format. Although it is possible to generate AVIs with variable bit rate (VBR) in some programs, the AVI specifications don't allow VBR audio formats in AVI files. Other programs may have problems with this AVI files. And AVCutty is one of them, because it cuts the AVI files without re-encoding.