Scenalyzer isn't quite doing it for me. That may only be my own issues with the software, but it's also very much geared towards finding scenes on a tape.

I think I've found a solution that will work quite well for me for this immediate coming week. Basically, I found that I can eliminate steps 1-3 and skip right to 4, because Picasa has a built-in video capturing tool. As you might imagine, its extremely basic, and offers no control over the camcorder (the tool is mostly geared toward webcams), but it does what I really need at the moment, which is to get short clips directly into Picasa.

I have one problem, though. All the video that gets captured is then stored interlaced. Is there any way to deinterlace it during playback? I'm not sure what Picasa is using to play back the video, but I thought it might be something configurable to make it deinterlace the video. If it comes to it, I'll just deinterlace them separately and put them back into Picasa, but it would be much easier if I could just make it deinterlace during playback...

Any ideas? And if I have to deinterlace separately, what app would you suggest?

*edit*
if it helps, it looks like Picasa saves the captures as WMV files.