Intended Commercial Insertion Point Detection ??

[UltraTV]

Hopefully Virtual Dub is the right software to start searching for the solution.

I have a bunch of h.264 media files from various sources, and I'd like to run an analysis of each file to search for the typical fadein/fadeout with 1 second of black video that marks where commercials were intended to be inserted during broadcast. Are there any tools currently available for this.

Sorry if this has already been covered, but I haven't had any success searching the forums for this sort of thing. Commercial detection where commercials are present is pretty common, but not Intended Commercial Insertion Point Detection.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

[neuron2]

Why didn't you cut the commercials before you encoded the H.264 files?

[UltraTV]

Sorry for being unclear.

There were never any commercials from these sources. Typically, content made for the tv has 1 second fade outs 1 second black 1 second fade ins for their commercial breaks with some sort of cliffhanger moment in the story. I'm looking for a program that can sift through video, find those short fade outs/fade ins and mark them for me.

[neuron2]

What I am asking is why didn't you do what you need to do *before* encoding your content to H.264? Or, if you didn't encode them, where did you get them?

[Randi]

sorry to be a bit OT, but could you please name a few commercial ad detection programs? Will be highly appreciated!