noobie video question 88 Responses

Last post: 1 year, 5 months ago | Thread started: Sep 8, 10, 5:31 p.m.

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• fetus

  I received a bunch of video form a client that is in DV NTSC format. When I view the video in Quicktime, all is good. When I re-encode the video (using a command-line tool), the video now has this 10-second count down at the beginning. This is not a generic countdown, it's something that was clearly in the original video but I guess there are instructions in the original video file that tell Quicktime to ignore the first 10 seconds? In movie inspector Quicktime says it's 20 seconds but it's actually 30.

  I'm looking for a way to automatically remove this lead in automatically but I don't even know what it's called. Therefore, I can't even Google about it.

  Sep 8, 10, 5:31 p.m. – Permalink

• fetus

  yes, automatically remove this lead in automatically.

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 5:39 p.m. – Permalink

• locustsloth

  i have never, in my 10 yrs of dealing with video, heard of a hidden embedded countdown in a quicktime file. My guess is it was added when you converted. The solution being to find out how it was added and not do that.

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 5:43 p.m. – Permalink

• fetus

  It wasn't added when converted. The countdown is designed and branded. e.g. "UP NEXT - BOB's CRAZY FARM VIDEO" 10...9...8...etc

  • Bob's Crazy Farm video, eh?– ETM

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 5:46 p.m. – Permalink

• ifeltdave

  could be chapters? i've never heard of this prob before but I know if I rip a DVD into mp4, the chapters do display in quicktime.

  Are you able to scrub to the countdown in the original video? Are you able to open it up in an editing program like After Effects or Final Cut Pro? Your best bet is to physically select the countdown and delete it.

  An odd issue, though, for sure..

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:06 p.m. – Permalink

• fetus

  > Are you able to scrub to the countdown in the original video?

  Nope

  > Are you able to open it up in an editing program like After Effects or Final Cut Pro?

  I opened it in a cheap video editor (don't have AE or FCP) and it doesn't show the countdown

  > Your best bet is to physically select the countdown and delete it.

  That's what I fear because I got about 100 videos here.

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:18 p.m. – Permalink

• fetus

  Correction: In my cheap video editor, it shows the real length (30s) but the first 10s are not the countdown. The first 10 seconds are a frozen frame of the 11th second. So seems like the countdown is there but cheap software is too dumb to understand.

  • lol F.– VikingKingEleven

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:20 p.m. – Permalink

• shellie

  I know I'm not expert, but why don't you download the trial of after effects and just trim the video and re-export to the format of your choice. After effects isn't as complicated as it looks and the trial is fully functional.

  • i don't know if this is correct, but it seems like after effects would have some sort of batch function for the other 99 videos. does it? anyone?– shellie

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:33 p.m. – Permalink

• ifeltdave

  ^ yes sort of. you could setup your workflow to be pretty damn close to a batch and set them all up to render at once.

  fetus, are your videos all the same length? getting a trial of AE would probably do you solid plus its a good excuse to learn some basic AE!

  • Videos not same length– fetus

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:40 p.m. – Permalink