Hi all, I have a peculiar requirement - I need to view 4 videos on the same PC (e.g. I can open them with 4 VLC player instances) - but what VLC can't do is this:
1) I need to be able to jump 5 seconds and then freeze the frame, and do this on all of them.
2) Hopefully synchronized, i.e. all of them jump at the same time, but not critical.
3) ALso hopefully automatic, but not necessary- I will be happy to press a key to advance to the next 5 seconds on each player or clip view
I tried doing this with Virtualdub but it only allows jumping forward 50 frames at a time. Does anyone know how to change it so it jumps 5 seconds, not 50 frames? i.e. to 120 frames if it displays the movie at 24fps, is that true?
I need this to be pretty accurate (+-0.1 second).
Many thanks
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In virtualdub, you will find time option under- Go-Go to frame
you can specify frame by number or by time -
Yes, but that means I have to calculate the next number each time manually. Its a few clicks. I was looking for a one click option (this has to be done on four separate videos at the same time, it becomes a bit too time consuming).... but thanks all the same....
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Since you are, quite possibly, the only person in the world who wants this specific type of software feature, don't expect any developers to have made what you are looking for.
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Because if they are the same format, frame rate, dimensions , you can use avisynth and stackvertical with stackhorzontal to get a 2x2 grid. Some mediaplayers will seek in 5sec increments with the right arrow key e.g. kmplayer / potplayer .(I'm sure there are many others), If you pause it and use the arrow key, this will advance 5 sec to a still frame . If you start with play mode, it will still advance 5sec increments
But even if the dimensions are different, you can pad them by using addborders() -
e.g a template script might look something like this
Code:a = avisource("video1.avi") b = avisource("video2.avi") c = avisource("video3.avi") d = avisource("video4.avi") top = StackHorizontal(a,b) bottom = StackHorizontal(c,d) StackVertical(top, bottom)
There are a some "gotchas" , eg. they have to be the same framerate, dimensions (or pad them), same audio sample rate (or you can kill the audio, if you don't need audio), and a few other things . They don't all have to be AVI, you can use different source filters as well -
The audio doesn't matter when using the Stack...() functions - the audio from only the first clip is used, the rest are ignored.
Another thing you can do with this script is add, say
SelectEvery(125)
at the end. You can then single step through the result to see every 125th frame from the original videos. This would correspond to every 5 secs at PAL's 25 fps. This won't work so good for NTSC (if you really want exactly 5 seconds), since you don't have an integral no of frames in 5 secs. -
You may also want to have a resize command added to the script at the end, as otherwise the image will be double the width & double the height...
Also, even if you don't use the SelectEvery() command, by frameserving it to Vdub, you can use the [Page Down] to advance 50 frames at a time (30fps X 5 sec = 50frames x 3 advances).
Scott -
Wonder if VJ software such as VJamm or Resolume could do this - might be worth a look.
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