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Video Splitter / Feature Suggestions for Video Splitter
« on: October 28, 2010, 08:36:03 AM »
I sent this to the support e-mail but thought I would post it here for discussion:
I have the following suggestions to improve your product:
If any of the above is unclear, please ask and I will elaborate. I would be happy to test beta software.
Thank you!
I have the following suggestions to improve your product:
- When creating a new segment, I would love to be able to specify the file name (segment name without file extension) at that point. Then when I am done marking the segments I could just hit an "export" function which would batch export all of the named segments.
- When moving a segment mark, I am usually moving it to the current playhead mark. I would like the mark to "snap" to the playhead. You could use the Shift key to keep the mark from snapping (or an option setting for those who don't like it, which could either turn the feature off altogether or it could just reverse the Shift key function and snap when the key is down).
- If I right-click on a segment I would like an option to play just that segment (it would stop when it reached the end of the segment).
- If I have hit thumbs down on a segment (logically deleting it) and I hit play in the segment before the deleted segment, it should skip the deleted segment during playback (don't play deleted segments). This way I can see that the transition between the two segments is OK before I export the trimmed video.
- I would love to see a segment list view (something like the batch manager view, but just showing all of the current segments, with segment names, etc.) where I can quickly edit the segment names. This list could also be used to re-order segments (if I wanted to re-join the video segments in a different order). In fact, the only way I can see to re-order segments is to export them separately and then join them in the different order. A segment list view could let me change the order of the segments before "trimming".
- In the "output pane" of the main window, there is a section marked "Size: -/-" which never actually shows any size information. I have only tried trimming AVCHD and WMV but it shows nothing for both. Does this only work for some formats? If so, then it should disappear for the formats for which it does not work.
- The program could process commercial skip files (sample link below), which would then create the proper segments and then the user could go through the segments and name them, export them, delete them, trim, etc. These files were generated by DVRMStoolBox and ShowAnalyzer.
- Double-clicking anywhere in the application changes the window from maximized to windowed. This is very non-standard behavior. I could see this maybe working if you double-clicked on the video, but not just anywhere in the window. This is nit-picking, but it just feels funny to me.
If any of the above is unclear, please ask and I will elaborate. I would be happy to test beta software.
Thank you!