How to cut breaks

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maniak
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How to cut breaks

Post by maniak »

Hello people,

I just stumbled over comskip and have tested it out a bit. I noticed it can create cut files for videoredo wich is great for me as i normally use videoredo.

My question is how I with best practice make comskip to find the commercial breaks in NHL. I did a fast test running against a file, but I just got "562197 Frames Processed Commercials were not found."

So im wondering how i should proced to find the commercials.

Here you can see an image of the commercial https://imgur.com/30bWDZ1

Please give me all kind of advice.

Thanks!
erik
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Re: How to cut breaks

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You first have to enable the videoredo output format in the comskip.ini file.
Maybe usefull to use the comskip ini editor that can be found in the distribution zip file.

The setting will tell comskip to produce a videoredo project file next to where the video recording is found
Open de videoredo project file with videoredo
virtual
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Re: How to cut breaks

Post by virtual »

maniak wrote:Please give me all kind of advice.
I suggest you to see also my posts in this thread:
viewtopic.php?p=8671#p8671

At the moment I'm able to detect cutscenes correctly (and they're displayed in Videoredo as red bookmarks, like in the Ad-Detective scan) and also after tweaking the INI file Comskip removed the commercials quite perfectly.
I'm still hoping that Erik will implement a way to "align" cutscenes to the previous (for the start)/following (for the end) scene change detection, so that further editing in VideoRedo is not necessary!
maniak
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Re: How to cut breaks

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erik wrote:You first have to enable the videoredo output format in the comskip.ini file.
Maybe usefull to use the comskip ini editor that can be found in the distribution zip file.

The setting will tell comskip to produce a videoredo project file next to where the video recording is found
Open de videoredo project file with videoredo
Thanks for this info!

virtual wrote:
maniak wrote:Please give me all kind of advice.
I suggest you to see also my posts in this thread:
viewtopic.php?p=8671#p8671

At the moment I'm able to detect cutscenes correctly (and they're displayed in Videoredo as red bookmarks, like in the Ad-Detective scan) and also after tweaking the INI file Comskip removed the commercials quite perfectly.
I'm still hoping that Erik will implement a way to "align" cutscenes to the previous (for the start)/following (for the end) scene change detection, so that further editing in VideoRedo is not necessary!
Thanks! At a glance in your ini-file this looks like a lot of information and terms im not familiar with.

From what I can understand the info i need is here https://imgur.com/AkPPd0o at the top boarder?

Thanks again for taking your time!
erik
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Re: How to cut breaks

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Did you read the htm files in the distribution zip file
virtual
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Re: How to cut breaks

Post by virtual »

maniak wrote:At a glance in your ini-file this looks like a lot of information and terms im not familiar with.
I just copied the OP user's INI file and edited the following:

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detect_method=132
global_threshold=0.95
delete_show_after_last_commercial=1
delete_show_before_first_commercial=1
Of course you have to export your cutscenes first using ComskipGUI and add the relevant dump files to the "cutscenefile1=", "cutscenefile2=", etc. in the INI.

Try with these settings and see if Comskip is able to mark the ads like in my case.
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