Specifications

Ad-Detective Common Parameters

The Common Parameters dialog is used to control the behavior the scene detection methods:

Scanning Behavior:

Pause Scan At Beginning of Block:

When checked, an interactive Ad-Detective scan will pause at the start of each commerical block. The start of

a commerical block is identified as the first scene transition with

Maximum Block Length Seconds.

Pause Scan At End of Block:

When checked, an interactive Ad-Detective scan will pause at the end of each commerical block. The end of

a commerical block is identified as the last scene transition followed by

Maximum Block Length Seconds

of program material.

Pause Scan At Each Scene Change:

When checked, an interactive Ad-Detective scan will pause whenever a scene change is detected.

Automatically Cut Detected Scenes:

If checked, VideoReDo will add the material between the begin and end of a block to the cut list.

Disable Display Update:

If checked, the video screen will not be updated during an interactive scan.

CPU Priority While Scanning:

The Ad-Detective scanning process is very CPU intensive. You can make your system more responsive by

setting the priority option to "Low". Once the scan is complete or manually stopped, the CPU priority of

VideoReDo will be reset to "Normal" automatically.

Minimum Seconds Between Marks:

If two scene changes are detected within this many seconds of each other, the first one will be removed.

Maximum Block Length Seconds:

This value should represent the maximum number of seconds between for an entire commerical block. If

your commercial blocks are 3 minutes long or less, then set this to 180 seconds.

A "start of commercial block" is defined as a scene marker with this many seconds of uninterrupted

program material in front.

An "end of commercial block" is defined as a scene marker with at least this many seconds of program

material before another scene marker is detected.