Odd question, Anyway to tell if a video has been edited?

[davy19]

Long story, but I have some videos, some avi, some mpeg, is there anyway I can open them in a program and find out if they have been cut? join? edited?


There is a reason behind my question which has nothing to do with vcd, but something to do for one of my hobbies.

thanks

[solarfox]

Not really, no... If the editing program did its job properly, then the file should be no different, data-format-wise, from any other AVI / MPEG file.

The only way you can really tell if a video has been edited is if you were to go through the video frame-by-frame and look for inconsistencies in the image caused by imperfect editing -- sudden jumps in the image, color shifts, that sort of thing. This, of course, may require that you know what the original video was supposed to look like.