I am looking for software (to run on PC) that can aid in the analysis of video files. I have several hundred hours of HD video (captured on a Sony Handycam that records to *.m2ts files) of display areas of the bird I am studying. I can convert the files to mpg with some loss of quality. During most of the videos, nothing happens. Sporadically, birds fly into view (often silently and very briefly). I want to record the behaviors during those brief periods. I am hoping to find software that can scan the videos and “flag” the movement of incoming birds so that observers can simply check the few min/hr when something is actually happening instead of sitting through hours of nothing and possibly get distracted and inattentive. Thanks very much.
Alice Boyle, Ph.D. Helen Battle Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biology Biological and Geological Sciences Building University of Western Ontario London, ON N6A 5B7 Canada
