HandySaw DS

Video editing can be difficult to achieve on large files, especially if you intend to add complex special effects to them. The large file size can significantly slow your system down and increase the load times in the video editor of your choice.

DAVIS(R) HandySaw DS is an application designed to detect and extract different scenes from your movie clips, in order to save them on your computer as smaller and easier to handle files. The utility is able to differentiate between two separate scenes by employing two methods: optical and by shooting date. The optical method works by parsing the entire content and recognizing certain scene change ques, then saving the results on your system.

As for the second method, it takes advantage of the information written inside the video file by the camera used to shoot the movie, which records the exact time and date for every frame. This data is transferred to your computer when you copy the clips and you can obtain a perfect scene detection accuracy thanks to it.

In order to speed up the process, you can add multiple files at once to the extraction process. The application displays the name, duration and number of scenes for each one of them and you can choose the desired output folder. You can modify the minimum number of frames for each scene and whether to merge them with the previous or the next ones.

In case you only require the audio stream of the movie, the program enables you to simply extract it to a WAV document and save it in a separate directory from the rest of the scenes. As for the splitting engine used, it differs depending on the format of the videos, but you can choose to utilize FFmpeg as the default engine for every type of file.

Thanks to the efficient recognition capabilities and the large variety of supported formats, DAVIS(R) HandySaw DS can effectively accomplish the task it was designed for, all from within an easy-to-use interface and intuitive features.