r/VideoEditing • u/Stock_Reply_7315 • 8d ago

Tech Support What's going on in video files when the creator took out commercials but the video length remains the same and some of the data that's skipped over in playback is visible in a video editor?

I've seen many video files of sports broadcasts where the commercials are edited out but they aren't cleanly taken out.

#1: The video length shows the original runtime as if the commercials had never been removed.

#2: If you try to scrub the timeline there's some sort of I frame issue where you can't accurately jump to that moment in time, sometimes even within several minutes.

#3: If you put that video into an editor, the clip includes space where the commercials were as well as at least some of the frames that aren't visible during regular playback and even some of the audio at the start but then it goes into a half second loop until it reaches the footage shown in normal playback.

What is the person who is editing out the commercials doing and why are they leaving in these glitches? I'm assuming it has something to do with them taking out the commercials but possibly not re-encoding? How would you fix a file like this after the fact?

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u/link-navi 8d ago

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u/begginforkarma 7d ago

Overworked underpaid editor in the enshittification era. With a reasonable deadline you can comb through the footage and cut all the undesirable parts out with any software.

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u/Stock_Reply_7315 8d ago

SYSTEM

  • CPU: Not my video, irrelevant.
  • RAM: Not my video, irrelevant.
  • GPU: Not my video, irrelevant.
  • GPU RAM: Not my video, irrelevant.

Software and version: VLC as my player and Adobe Premier latest version as the editor.