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Splitting Video Based on Content
Hey all,
Does anyone know if there is a way to split up a captured video based on the content? (I.E. slate, 3 seconds of black, etc.)
Basically, I have several large (2 hour) clips of music videos that I need to seperate and label. Splitting these up manually is going to be a huge pain and I’m looking for a way to streamline this process- each music video has a 2 second slate at the beginning.
I’m familiar with the Magnum – Edit Detector script in After Effects, but it won’t fit my needs.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks a lot!
Adam Bloemink
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4 Replies
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AE is definitely not the right tool for this. Just bring the material into your NLE of choice. I would think the material isn’t just randomly placed about so it shouldn’t take that long.
Joey -
Actually, it is fairly randomly placed. The songs range from 2-5 minutes long, so there’s no easy way to just slice them up.
I’m working with 80 two-hour videos too, totaling around 2200 songs. NLE is my last resort.
You’re probably right that AE is the wrong program, I just figured that there may be a script or something available.
Perhaps this question would be best suited for another section unless anyone else has suggestions.
Adam
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Haha, ok.
Thanks for the help anyways.
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If anyone’s interested, here’s the work flow I’m using:
1. Import all 80 clips into AE
2. Split each music video manually (Edit > Split Layer, or Apple-Shift-D on Mac)
3. Render layer script (https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_RenderLayers)It’s the easiest way I’ve found so far, this could be just because I’m more of a compositor than editor. There’s a fair bit of manually labour involved, but at least I don’t have to batch export out of an NLE which would add a lot more work.
It also makes it very easy to demux all of these videos, as a nice bonus for the client would be to have audio-only versions.
Thanks again,
Adam
https://www.lucrativestudios.com
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