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BrettSheleski / comchap

Commercial detection script to add chapters into video file
MIT License
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Comcut outputs files with bad audio when importing .edl files that begin with 0. #43

Closed daphatty closed 4 years ago

daphatty commented 4 years ago

How to recreate

Import an .edl file where the first element begins with a 0. The resulting output file will have either corrupted audio or no audio at all.

Example .edl file

0   86.39   3
574.49  845.76  3
1085.22 1380.4  3
1619.95 1872.42 3
2360.87 2637.57 3
2966    3087.17 3
3351.55 3639.85 3

Manual Fix

Modify the .edl file prior to using comcut by replacing the 0 with 0.0 or 00.00. Comcut will process the .edl file correctly and the resulting video file will function as expected.

00.00   86.39   3
574.49  845.76  3
...

Notes

The video files I am converting are DVR recordings of Over the Air broadcasts using Channels DVR. By default, I add some padding before and after each recording to accommodate for time deviation. Therefore, all resulting recordings will need content removed from the beginning and end of each file.

daphatty commented 4 years ago

Closing as I believe the cause of this problem is unrelated to .edl files.