Dubner International, Inc.

Scene Stealer - Automatic scene detector/videologger

Microsoft Accesstm template included for building your video database.

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Scene Stealer eliminates the tedious process of finding scene changes in the front-end of video production. It's the fastest way to turn hours of raw footage into a final production and it offers a low-cost solution for managing your video library. Available for Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT.

• Save hours of logging drudgery - While grabbing video thumbnails, Scene Stealer automatically locates your video cut points and stores them with timecode on your computer.
• Cut costs with your Scene Stealer prepared EDL. You'll cut expensive edit time up to 75%. With drag & drop editing, Scene Stealer lets you try out your edits off-line before the clock starts ticking! Lists are compatible to most popular editing systems.
• Start a video database - Facing a wall full of videotape and no idea where to find the clip you need right now? With Scene Stealer you can archive images or whole scenes for quick retrieval.
• Log or transcribe interviews eliminating the need for monitor, cassette and computer word processing equipment. Scene Stealer plus an ordinary sound board is all you need. Insert phrase cutpoints on-the-fly or during playback for closed captioning and subtitling operations.
• Print catalog pages and storyboards - Scene Stealer makes hardcopy prints of selected images (with timecodes and comments) for a catalog of your master tapes. Or, create paper-edits in a traditional "corkboard storyboard" session.

Here's how it works:

• Install Scene Stealer. No other video input card is required for monochrome capture. For color capture, Scene Stealer interfaces to various color capture boards such as the Intel Smart Video Recorder III and a low-cost Stealer-in-Color frame grabber (Pinnacle's miroMedia PCTV board) available directly from Dubner..
• Set the system to capture frames at timed intervals or only when triggered by cuts. You can insert cutpoints as you watch and listen however the power of Scene Stealer is in the automatic process. Scene Stealer finds and marks the camera cutpoints automatically - it's an unmonitored process.
• Playback video thumbnails or cuts only - timecode is frame accurate.
• No timecode reader? No problem; use a window burn, and tell the program what timecode you see in grabbed video.
• Step through frame-by-frame, jump to next scene, shuttle backwards or forwards.
• Enter comments, editing cues, archival descriptions.
• Log or transcribe the grabbed audio. Accurately insert cut-points precisely to the intake of breath. Customize transcripts with selected video images.
• Flag pictures for export, print, or archival storage
  1. Print your storyboards with any size picture in any number of columns and rows.
  2. Click on a menu to export pictures into relational database programs such as Microsoft Access. We've built the template and the interface. You just have to click.
  3. Split long reels into smaller segments for logging at different stations.
  4. Save selected scenes as part of shorter, new master reels.
• Reassemble and trim scenes to fit a timeline.
• Automatically create EDLs for Avid, Scitex, Media 100, D/Vision and other edit systems on Mac & PC platforms.

• 386 or better, Windows 3.1 or higher, including Windows 95 and Windows NT. Windows 95 and higher required for color capture and JPEG compression software.
• 4 Mbs RAM. 8 is better - for Windows, not for us.
• Hard drive storage requirements vary. One hour of video grabbed at one frame per second uses 60 megabytes. The program files require only 200K of disk space. Color images are easily compressed with Scene Stealer for good quality display requiring the same storage requirements as black and white.
• Creative Labs SoundBlaster-compatible board required for working with audio files. Any Windows compatible sound card is compatible if you are running Windows 95.
• RS-422/232 data converter required for reading timecode from serially controlled decks. Available through Dubner.
• Other timecode-reading options available, including VISCA and various adapter boards. But if you work with a window burn dub, Scene Stealer will match the numbers on the video image and give you accurate timecode. No peripherals required!
• Color capability: Your Scene Stealer system offers color capability in conjunction with color capture boards. The Stealer-in-Color frame grabber (Pinnacle's miroMedia's PCTV board) is available directly from Dubner International.  Intel's Smart Video Recorder III (known as the Indeo board) is also compatible.
  Each uncompressed color image needs about 57,600 bytes; however with JPEG compression, color storage requirements can be reduced to monochrome levels.
  Specifications for both color frame grabbers:
  • Pentium processor
  • PCI expansion slot
  • Windows 95 with 16 MBs of RAM
  • CD ROM
  • high color display

System includes ISA circuit board and software, model DSS-200.

OPTIONS:
Stealer-in-Color    PCI circuit board for color capture to work in conjunction with Scene Stealer model DSS-200.
DSS-RS422/232    Data converter for reading timecode from serially controlled decks
DSS-FT                  Foot pedal for controlling audio playback - recommended for transcription applications

Scene Stealer User Reports - Check out how video professionals rely on Scene Stealer to prepare off-line edits, archive video data, and prepare audio transcripts.

Contact us directly for free demonstration software. You'll receive a 3.5" disk with Scene Stealer grabbed video that will play back on any Windows computer. Specify whether running Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 or higher.

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