Comments on: Magnum – The Edit Detector

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:14:31 +0000

No, this will split the clip at edit points. It’s not a forensic tool if that’s what you mean.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:34:46 +0000

I have a video that appears to have been edited but is claimed to be untouched, will this determine if the video has been edited “after” it was originally recorded?

Thanks,
Mike

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:38:20 +0000

How long of a work area are you running Magnum on? AE will run out of memory eventually if it’s a very long work area. Depends on the size and type of footage as well as your machine’s capabilities. I would try running Magnum on short bits at a time. You can test to see how long you can go at one time.

By: Casey

Casey — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:33:17 +0000

After Effects warning: Timeout while waiting for the engine
Expression disabled.

Error occurred at line 5.
Comp: ‘Comp 1’
Layer: 2 (‘_Magnum_at_Work_’)
Property: ‘Slider’

Uuuuuhhh… Help? Magnum is not working in CS5 or 5.5.

By: matt b

matt b — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:36:34 +0000

Works just fine in CS4 for me! Better than fine! This script is great!!! Such a time saver.

By: Darius

Darius — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:54:45 +0000

This worked for me too! Was about ready to give up on good old Magnum :’(
thanks for the tip!

By: Jerry303

Jerry303 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:14:33 +0000

Wow, works like a charm! Saves me a lot of time.

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:31:29 +0000

Yes, that’s a known issue but glad you figured it out.

By: Jance Allen

Jance Allen — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:34:06 +0000

Hey Lloyd!

I couldn’t get any edits found no matter what until I changed my Project Settings Frame Count to start at 0 instead of 1 (got the tip from reading through the user comments above). This is in CS5.5 on OSX 10.6.8.

Once I changed to Start at 0, it detected edits. Just passing along the info.

Thanks!

- Jance

By: marcelo

marcelo — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:26:02 +0000

al poner el tiempo en 00:00:00:00 funciona perfectamente ! muchas gracias por compartir

putting the time 00:00:00:00 works perfectly! thank you very much for sharing

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:31:28 +0000

I would consider that out of the scope of Magnum and the focus of another script. Have you tried pt_LayerMarkers? http://aescripts.com/pt_layermarkers/

By: Paul Golden

Paul Golden — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:02:00 +0000

Hi Lloyd, very cool script. Here’s a new function I’d like: can you have the auto chop mode work on markered audio (or video) tracks instead of scene detection? I’m thinking that for use on music videos or vocal tracks, I’d have an audio track with markers where I’d like cut points. Then your script could chop up the track and break the music into individual trimmed pre-comps that would be scene numbered. This would allow me to easily create lots of shots based on arbitrary marker points instead of audio amplitude or visual scene changes. Your thoughts?

By: Michael McReynolds

Michael McReynolds — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:26:09 +0000

I don’t have any idea why this certain footage doesn’t work with magnum at all. Here is a sample
http://itaki.com/magnumtest_jpeg.mov

I’ve changed codecs and tried pushing in. Just every time Magnum just skips right over EVERY edit. I’ve tried Magnum with other foot, however, and it works just great.

Any ideas?

By: Lee Warner

Lee Warner — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:25:42 +0000

I wasn’t sure if 30 seconds was considered long or short in Magnum’s world. I will try 10 sec chunks tomorrow.

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:35:21 +0000

Have you tried running it on shorter sections?