I have never used scenes before, and I just decided on a whim to try it. I took a two-hour video and had PD detect scenes before I imported the file. Before I put the idea back the junk drawer, does anyone have any comments on my experience?

Unlike a clip, when I added a scene to the timeline there was no indication in the media library to indicate that it was in use.

When I put only the very first scene onto the timeline, navigation was horrendously slow. It was almost impossible to locate a specific spot in the video, because it took almost a second to render the frame under the scrubber. Navigating the original clip was easy, with rendering instantaneous (in human terms).

I couldn't make heads or tails of how the scene detection worked. Since this video actually was shot in "scenes" (actually, many segments spliced together), I thought this would be very handy; but the scene starts and stops seemed to be completely arbitrary.

Did I miss something? Is anyone else using scene detection?

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I take it back: navigating the full clip wasn't really faster than the scene. My other comments stand. Jerry Schwartz