Can VS, or a nice plug-in, scan many hours (100's) of video for level changes or motion?

[JohnRVSP]

Hello all,
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Is there a way for VS or a plug-in to scan through hours and hours of video to detect motion or level or sound changes or content changes?
I'm looking for which family pet is causing practically invisible, ghost like even, trouble an have no convenient way to review the hours of footage.
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Is there an other or better way?
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Thanks,
John
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VS X10u, 18u, 20u,and 21u are potentially available
X10u & 20u are installed somewhere.....

[asik1]

If the trouble is practically invisible or ghostly how do you know that it even occurred or why to bother.
But if it has any noise level you better load the sound track to Audacity and find the pops
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/sound_finder.html

[JohnRVSP]

The results are far from invisible, but the culprit(s) seem to be.
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I was looking for a way to review 10-20-50 hours of video without sitting in front of a video monitor for 10-20-50 hours.
Maybe something that shows a video timeline that has color accents or line spikes where the slowly changing video or audio, suddenly changes due to a cat entering the scene, creating a new large dark spot moving around on an otherwise nonchanging background, or the occasional off-screen crashing sound against sound background of low-level static.
(The "sound answer" offered above is a possibility, but there is no guarantee of a sound feature to find, and permanent visual changes to the original background scene remain virtually unchanged due to the cat like nature of the intruder so you can't just look for a(the) change(s) by zooming in on the visual time line by simply cutting it in half, going back-and-forth).
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I was thinking that a calculation of all of the color pixels, or pixel brightness, or some other feature could be compared to a new scene change, as a large black mass enters the scene, causing a large change in the value(s) calculated of the previous small/non changes, of the previous scene(s) calculations?
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Would a plug-in or is VS even capable of doing such a scene-by-scene comparison?
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Is there a better/different way?
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Thanks,
John

[asik1]

VS is a video editor not AI ghost search app.
Why do you even think it (or any NLE) should have such feature
Try to find those ghost seekers that host in the history / discovery channels they could take it to the next level.
Or give audacity a chance...

**If you upload an hour for us to download at least you'll have a chance of global help.

[canuck]

John,
have you looked at the "Split-by Scene" option of VideoStudio? It can split your video into separate clips on the timeline. Depending on what you then want to do, you have to look at each clip of course if you are looking for a particular "scene change". There is no way around doing a lot of manual work. I don't thin any user oriented program will be able to detect "a large black mass"
Read the VideoStudio manul for information on how to use this option

[Jean-Luc]

Is there a way for VS or a plug-in to scan through hours and hours of video to detect motion or level or sound changes or content changes?
I'm looking for which family pet is causing practically invisible, ghost like even, trouble an have no convenient way to review the hours of footage.

I think you need specialized software, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4In1HYbRfpg

[JohnRVSP]

Thanks for your suggestions,
John