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Stabilisation Ground Truth — detail-chart, Locked Off

The locked-off reference for the detail-chart stabilisation set — any motion in this clip is subject motion, not camera motion. The shaky clips in this group are this footage with a recorded synthetic camera path applied, so residual motion after stabilisation can be measured against zero rather than eyeballed.

Browser-playable test video · 2 seconds

Specifications

Resolution
640x360
Fps
24
Camera Shake
none
Duration
2s
Role
ground truth
Crf
14
Base Plate
detail-chart

Testing contract

Reference control
Scenario
Use this clip as the reference term when scoring stabilisation output produced from any degraded input in this group.
Expected result
The clip has no camera shake at all: 2s at 24 fps. It is the detail-chart base plate at 640x360, 24 fps, encoded at CRF 14 so that codec artefacts sit well below the effect being measured. Every input in this group names this file in its own specs, so a score computed against anything else is not comparable with the rest of the suite.

What is a .mp4 file?

MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) is the dominant container for digital video, holding video, audio, subtitle, and metadata tracks in a tree of typed boxes. `ftyp` declares the brand, `moov` carries the sample tables that make seeking possible, and `mdat` holds the media; when an encoder writes `moov` last, playback cannot begin until the file has fully downloaded, which a faststart remux fixes. It derives from Apple's QuickTime format, generalized by ISO into the ISOBMFF base that MOV, 3GP, and HEIF share.

How to use this file

Use an example MP4 to test box parsing and track detection, seeking, range-request streaming, and transcode or thumbnail pipelines: verifying that a file with a trailing `moov` box is still handled, and that codec support is checked per track rather than inferred from the extension.

How to use this file for testing

“Stabilisation Ground Truth — detail-chart, Locked Off” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Video stabilisation, Video QA. Camera shake applied with a recorded motion path over a static original, so a stabiliser's residual motion can be measured rather than estimated.

Documented properties for this file: ground truth · 2s · 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="detail-chart-locked.mp4"></video>

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