Browse the movie content
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to browse a movie like you do with a book? Or to have an index to start your search from?
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SimpleMovieX has a powerful Search Pane that generates an index of the selected sequence. Divided in 16 or 64 frames, it gives an overview of what the movie contains. It can be used to find commercials inside a long movie, to detect the beginning and the end of a TV program, or to quickly do logging and selection for a rough cut. |
16 or 64 frames?
If you are looking for commercials inside a TV program or a movie, a safe bet is to scan by half hours with 16 frames, or 2 hours with 64 frames. In both cases, you get one frame every 2 minutes, and a commercial break will certainly last more than that, so you'll catch it.
16 or 64 ? It's a question of taste, and of visual confort.
Learn to read the Audio!
Audio Waveform can in some occasion be the easiest way to spot interesting times in a movie, like transition between program and advertisement or between songs. Indeed, the average volume will change from one TV program to another. In the picture below, you can easily find when a song starts and end. Bell shape at the left end is characteristic of applauses.
