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I’m looking for software that can identify the differences in scenes between two videos. That is, I’m interested in inserted or removed sections of a video. (Think “Which scenes does the director’s cut contain that aren’t in the standard release?”)

This could either be a standalone tool or a feature of a larger video editing app.

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  • the ffmpeg command line tool should be able to do this. could be worth looking into
    – DeveloperACE
    Commented May 31, 2021 at 21:27
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    Thanks. I’ve looked both at the ffmpeg documentation and at Ffworks (a tool that is to a large degree a UI on top of ffmpeg) and neither does seem to offer this functionality. Maybe it is possible to program something similar with ffmpeg, but that’s not what I had in mind.
    – Telman.I
    Commented Jun 3, 2021 at 9:28
  • does this help? dericed.com/2012/…
    – DeveloperACE
    Commented Jun 3, 2021 at 13:46
  • the videodiff problem is also described in Automatically compare two videos to find common content
    – milahu
    Commented Jun 4 at 8:53
  • possible solution in github.com/jahwi/similar-vid
    – milahu
    Commented Jun 4 at 9:34

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There's a project called video-compare which is meant for videos with the same length/framecount. I played a role in writing its Homebrew formula, for simpler installation.

But I'm also eagerly looking for something more like what you describe: better at detecting removed/added sequences, closer to what text diffs do.

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