How to part DV AVI type 1,2 by DV time codes
1. Start the SolveigMM AVI Trimmer by double clicking a SolveigMM AVI Trimmer icon on your Windows work table.
The window of SolveigMM AVI Trimmer will open.
3. Click the button on the right of "Source file" field in this block.
A file selection dialog will open. Use this dialog to find and select DV file (AVI) which you plan to split on fragments. Confirm the selection.
The file selection dialog will close.
4. If a Scene Detection dialog has open automatically, go to the next step. Else click "Scene Detect" button on the right side of SolveigMM AVI Trimmer window.
The Scene Detection dialog will open. If scene detection process has not started automatically, click "Start" button of the Scene Detection dialog.
5. Wait a while until scene (timecodes) detecting process will complete.
6. Click "OK" button of Notification (Information) dialog.
7. There are DV timecodes (datecodes) of the handling file indicates in "Scenes" list.
It is not required for further but if you wish to save information about DV timecodes in special "SDI" format, click "Save" button of Scene Detection dialog, else go to next step.
A file saving dialog will open. Use this dialog to specify target file name with "sdi" extension and confirm. The DV timecodes will be saved to specified file and the file saving dialog will close.
8. Press "Shift" or "Ctrl" key on a keyboard and keep it, and click few items of "Scenes" list at the same time to select them. Then release key. Only selected scenes (parts of source file) will be saved to a separate file later as described below.
If you're not sure that scenes were recognozed and selected correctly, just select them all: you have possibilities to reselect scenes later as described below. For total selecting first select top item in "Scene" list, then press "Shift" key on a keyboard and keep it, and press and keep "Down arrow" key at the same time until all list items will be selected. Then release keys.
9. Click "Add Selected" button of Scene Detect dialog.
The selected timecodes from "Scenes" list will be copied to list in SolveigMM AVI Trimmer window.
10. Close Scene Detect dialog by clicking a standard "Close" button on the upper right corner of this dialog.
11. If you select scenes correctly in step 8, go to next step. Else you should remove unnecessary scenes from list of timecodes. This list is located near the right side of SolveigMM AVI Trimmer window. To preview any listed scene you should click it to select and then click "Play Selected" button.
To select unnecessary scenes press "Shift" or "Ctrl" key on a keyboard and keep it, and click appropriate items of list at the same time. Then click "Remove" button to remove selected unnecessary scenes.
12. Now you have got listed scene set which is ready to be written to separate file. Click the button on right of "Dest file" field in "Set File" block.
A file saving dialog will open.
13. Use file saving dialog to specify and confirm destination AVI file name to write prepared fragment to.
The file saving dialog will close. The "Dest file" field of SolveigMM AVI Trimmer window will be filled.
14. Click "Run" button to start fragment extracting process. All listed scenes will be combined and written to the specified separate file.
Wait a while until extracting process will be completed.
15. To extract other scenes click "Scene Detect" button and repeat the steps from 8 to 15 until all fragments will be handled.
