[Dave Whitacker]

Hi again Oki,

Sorry for the delay, been busy on another project.

I’ve looked through those links and none of them quite fit the bill unfortunately. There must be a solution though…..

I’ll continue the search, but the way I see it; the solution works in 3 stages.

1) Separate the final 360p output into it’s individual scenes (clips). (looks like a PP extension might exist, or speed grade if not)
2) find a program that can then scan the individual clips and find their match in a folder containing the original HD media.
3) detect start and end points required and then insert it into sequence, replacing 360p footage with HD….and also allowing a new edit to be done.
4) manually tweak the bits that didn’t work, but breath easy at saving days and days of work.

Any coders reading this that do coding for money?

***EDIT*** if there’s a video comparison tool that can compare one video to a bin of videos and detail the duplicate frames, then it would be possible to at least transpose the data and create a project like: first clip: abcd.mov frame 34 to 149
second clip: efgh.mov frame 438 to 789
etc etc, and then build it manually from the data provided?

[Dave Whitacker]

Hi Oki,

I found the Magnum detector plugin for AE and that appeared to solve the first stage. I’m still trying to find a comparison tool that can then automatically replace the footage with the original. (The client’s exported video is 360p and they have the original 1080p source files still). Mathematically it should be possible with a form of comparison macro. It may take a day or 2 to run on an hour long project, but it should be possible.