QP file output

[tormento]

x265 (and other software) accepts a .qp file to force a frame type to be applied to a certain frame.

An example is:

0 I -1
1640 I -1
3789 I -1
17191 I -1
31784 I -1
33927 I -1

to have proper scene change cuts.

Here you can find the syntax.

It can be derived by chapters but it's almost of no use when wanting a clean cut frame per each scene.

Would you mind to add that kind of output?

[Breakthrough]

Thanks, this falls under some of the other open issues to expand on output formats. I think we should add a new command like export-scenes that is dedicated for this purpose, so that the cuts can be saved in various formats. Updated #344 to include a link to this issue.

I would imagine the command to look something like export-scenes -o "cuts.qp" and have the format auto-detected from extension where possible, or explicitly specified with another flag. We could also allow specifying export-scenes several times to generate the output in different formats.

[tormento]

Thanks, do you have any ETA?

[Breakthrough]

Unfortunately no ETA at this time, but in v0.6.3 you can now generate a list of cuts as frame numbers instead of timecodes with a config file. To do this, you can add the following to a config file:

[list-scenes]
cut-format = frames

And then use the list-scenes command to generate a CSV file, the first row will be the frames that you need to add I frames for. So the row would contain the following from your example:

1640,3789,17191,31784,33927

You might be able to wrangle that into a QP file with some bash magic or write a small Python script. If you're using the Python API, the detect function should already return the info you need.

[tormento]

Excel can do magic tricks ;)