[VB]Are there any automated or VB-accessible video editing programs?

[bmilano]

Specifically, I am looking to have an automated way to turn a long video clip into 3-minute segments.

One way would be to ingest a long video clip into my VB program and have my program spit it back out as 3-minute segments. I know there are plenty of programs out there that can do this via their own GUI, but I am looking for something that can do it automatically and/or by my VB program calling it. I don’t want the user to have to do anything manually.

I’ve found that Canopus ProCoder has an automatic video conversion tool that “watches” a directory for new video files and automatically converts them to a new video format without intercession of other software, but it doesn’t have anything that will automatically slice and dice.

[bmilano]

For whatever it's worth, there does not seem to be anything out there to do this out of the box. However, there does seem to be a company, Rhozet, that specializes in producing just such applications (http://www.rhozet.com/).

Suffice to say, getting something custom developed isn't going to be as inexpensize as buying some $30 software shrinkwrapped in a box, but I thought I'd pass along the info just the same.