Scene Edit Detection not working

[Jeff Bugbee]

Anyone gotten Scene Edit Detection working? On my PC, I've tried a variety of media and scene edit detection simply does it's Analyzing, then nothing. No cuts, no edits.

On Windows 10, Premiere v14.4.0 (Build 38)

[Jeff Bugbee · Accepted solution]

I posted prematurely. I had installed the latest update and immediately ran Premiere and had edit detection fail. A simple reboot made the Scene Edit Detection work.

[jeff_b1]

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[Michael Grenadier]

thanks for the update.  Not enuf people follow thru.

[marcob40653868]

Hi, I have premiere pro version 14.6.0 (build 51) windows 10, Scene Edit Detection is not working and there are no update available, is there a way of making it work?
Thanks

[lamrasi5CED]

Same problem HABIBI

[alejandro72648186]

Happened to me. Found it didn't return any edits if it was a video WITHOUT AUDIO and audio track was selected. When I de-selected it, it worked. Seems like a bug.

[محمد علی25642169d145]

I also had this problem.
It didn't work when the clip was without sound, but it worked when I imported the same clip with sound.

[Lina5DDE]

You are the GOAT thank you!

[EsTaF]

2023. The problem is still there)))

[OldDesertLizard]

Every time I run it I get this:

Retried, including the audio clip - same issue.

[Michael Grenadier]

for the last 2 posters, please tell us your system specs: OS version, Premiere version, amount of RAM, Hardware specs including graphics card and your source properties and sequence settings...  

[OldDesertLizard]

Windows 10 Pro for Wordstations

Verion 10.0.19044 Build 19044

HP Z2 Tower G5 Workstation

Xeon W-1290 CPU at 3.7GHz, 10 cores/20 processors

64GB physical RAM

NVIDEO Quadro RTX 5000

Driver version 30.0.14.7298

Premiere Pro 23.2.0 Build 69

I've tried doing this dozens of times, primarily with 1920x1080 25FPS Zoom Cloud Recording files.

Here's a Process Explorer view of the performance data:

It quits when the private bytes exceed the available amount. I could bump that up and try again, but how much RAM does it need?  Would rendering a proxy down the 640x360 and running the process on that be of some help?  This is an hour-long recording.

[Michael Grenadier]

The zoom recording may be the problem. Its heavily compressed mpeg
format. Try transcoding to an all iframe format like prores. Happy to
explain my thinking in detail if you want

[OldDesertLizard]

I'm happy to try anything.  First time transcoding really... this is more confusing than helpful:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/video/discover/video-transcoding.html

I picked DnxHR... we'll see that happens.

[OldDesertLizard]

And... that worked.  Guess I need to transcode things out of Zoom more often. Good thing I got a large NAS system -- Media Encoder turned a 1G file into an 87G file in 25 minutes.

Performance graph:

Thanks for the tip, @Michael Grenadier.

[Michael Grenadier]

you're welcome.   glad it worked out.  

[Betania6C15]

Hey!
I had to cut the clip into smaller clips and then run the Scene Edit detection and worked.
It is not working in long videos.

[cindyl29302053]

I have the same issue but on M2 pro Mac. 8 minute clip and the software makes no cuts although no error is displayed. 

[JoshCee27]

Same Here with an M2 Pro as well... Davinci is looking sweeter and sweeter....

[Michael Grenadier]

What format are your sources?  An mpeg format is probably going to be problematic as each frame is not discreet.  Try transcoding to an all iframe format (also known as a mezzanine format) like prores and then try running scene edit detection.

[JoshCee27]

Tried that and still no luck..

[Michael Grenadier]

what format did you transcode to?  

[matthewb37678304]

I'm having the same issue. Always used Scene Edit Detection with great success, but in the most recent updates it only "sees" a small percentage of the cuts. Nothing has changed between when it worked and didn't work apart from Premiere itself. I'm even editing a lot of the same footage.

[Jeff Bugbee]

Mac or PC? 

If Mac, Intel or M1/M2?

If M1/M2, can you try running Premiere in Rosetta mode and see if Edit Detection works there?