<p>I have couple of video files with sudden transition from black frame to blue frame, both frames have burned-in frame numbers, I would like to use ffmpeg to define the timestamp of this transition in order to automate the cutting of these files. Is there a possibility to do that. I guess I can either do it with some form of scene detection or by using OCR tool to check the frame number of the current frame and then extract the timestamp. </p>

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FFMPEG frame extraction
Georgi Stoyanov
# FFMPEG frame extraction

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-05-24)

I have couple of video files with sudden transition from black frame to blue frame, both frames have burned-in frame numbers, I would like to use ffmpeg to define the timestamp of this transition in order to automate the cutting of these files. Is there a possibility to do that. I guess I can either do it with some form of scene detection or by using OCR tool to check the frame number of the current frame and then extract the timestamp.

**Tags:** video, ffmpeg, codec, filter


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