MP4 — Hard Scene Cut
A short H.264 clip with an abrupt mid-point colour scene cut — for scene-detection and keyframe tooling.
Specifications
- Resolution
- 480x270
- Fps
- 24
- Codec
- H.264
- Container
- MP4
- Duration
- 2.50s
- Event
- hard cut at mid-point
- Frames
- 60
What is a .mp4 file?
MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) is a widely supported multimedia container based on ISOBMFF that holds video, audio, subtitles, and metadata, most commonly H.264 or H.265 video with AAC audio. It supports streaming, chapters, and multiple tracks. It is the dominant format for distributing and playing digital video.
How to use this file
Use an example MP4 to test container demuxing, track and codec detection, seeking and streaming, and transcoding or thumbnail-extraction pipelines.
How to use this file for testing
“MP4 — Hard Scene Cut” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: 2.50s · 24 fps. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Media fixtures are short and synthetic by design. Prefer waveform or transcript ground truth in the same group when measuring ASR, trim, upscale, or sync tools; do not assume broadcast-quality masters.
Code examples
<video controls preload="metadata" width="640" src="scene-cut.mp4"></video>Related files
- mp4MP4 — Black Flash FramesShort black flash frames SAMPLE for colour and flash QC detectors.
- mp4MP4 — Black-Frame InsertA clip with a short pure-black insert — for black-frame detectors and QC tools.
- mp4MP4 — Burned-In TimecodeOn-screen running timecode burned into frames — for OCR and slate tools.
- mp4MP4 — Colour BarsA short colour-bar test pattern clip — for colour pipeline and player QC.
- mp4MP4 — Countdown DigitsOn-screen countdown digits burned into frames — for OCR and slate detection.
- mp4MP4 — Freeze Frame SegmentMotion, then a one-second frozen segment, then motion again — for freeze detection and VFR edge cases.
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