DV Capture with chapters and date/time of original recording

[chrisedmonson]

I've got lots of home movies on DV. I want to transfer them to DVD with reasonable speed and minimal editing.

I've searched and searched. Is there no affordable application (under $250) that can do these basic things?
- Capture real time to MPEG2
- Automatically generate chapters using timecode/date-time changes
- Able to display original recording date/time. Options could be via closed caption, titles, or naming of the chapters.

In addition, I'd like to be able to configure the application to allow small gaps in date-time. Consider, many times you may pause recording in home movies. I'd like to be able to say "Any gap under 5 minutes" is a continuation of the current chapter, not a new one. Otherwise, I may have 10 30-60 second chapters for what I consider to be a single "event".

I've tried Sonic MyDVD version 4 and 5. 5 is generally better for chapter support, but has serious performance issues related to re-transcoding material it doesn't need to. Neither version gives access to date/time.

I've tried Ulead MovieFactory 2 and 3, and VideoStudio 7. Generally, seem to like these better than Sonic, but still no access to date/time.

Tried the eval version of Adobe Premier. Couldn't do what I want, and too spendy.

I couldn't find an eval version of Pinnacle Studio V9, and from some comments I've spotted, not sure I should keep looking.

Where do I go from here? Write something myself? I don't have the time.

I'm to the point where I'm thinking of doing simultaneous capturing: DV iLink to one PC, and SVideo with date/time of recording to my All-In-Wonder card in another PC at a low frame rate (1 per sec) so I can lookup the date/time while manually chapter splitting and authoring the DVD. Yuck.

There's gotta be something out there that can do this..

[MrMungus]

Have you tried Scenalyzer yet? I know it does splits based on scene changes but I can't remember if it does splits based on date/time...but it might.

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[donpedro]

Check this post

How to capture Date in the video?