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TestVid Video Clip Sets Overview
Products Summary
TestVid Uncompressed Video Test Sequences Technical overview
TestVid clips encompass the following video types:
- YUV uncompressed video, with associated audio
- Designed specifically for testing video encoders, with a range of subjects and features (see below)
- 2D and 3D stereoscopic
- Almost all common sizes of video: from 80x60 all the way to 4K D-Cinema; 8-bit, 10-bit, 12-bit and 14-bits per sample; 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4
- Length of each sequence typically 15 seconds to 45 seconds (some shorter, some up to two minutes)
Native video format
All video was filmed HD 1920x1080 or higher resolution (majority of recent sequences filmed with cameras with sensors 3.8k x 2k), in the USA (New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Florida) and Europe (London, Barcelona, Munich) except the test set T2V006_Synthetic which was generated at various sizes.
Subject/feature types
The TestVid test clip sets cover just about the whole range of video features that an encoder is likely to encounter, including a range of subjects, motion, colors, light levels designed to fully test and stress the video encoder:
- Subject types such as people, traffic, buildings, sky, water, trees, text..
- Movement types such as panning, zooming in/out, tracking, hand-held camera, fast, slow..
- Subject motion such as into, out of or across the picture, in front of and partially behind objects
- Lighting conditions, from bright sunlight, dull daylight, shaded areas, indoors, night-time..
- Varying camera properties such as depth of field, in/out-of-focus..
- Hard to encode items such as reflections, fine lines, patterns, round objects..
- And with sound associated with almost all of the video clips
The purpose is to ensure that someone who is evaluating an encoder or decoder can be confident that the encoder will not 'fall over' or encode really slowly when dealing with 'difficult video', and importantly allows the codec user to fully compare different encoders or the codec developer to optimize the encoder for a whole range of video.
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4K resolution (uncompressed) |
South Korea, Japan, China |
4K (4096x2304 plus many other resolutions) |
20 pairs (20 L+R pairs) |
12 mins |
YUV/RGB/BMP; planar/interleaved; prog/int; 16/14/12/10/8 |
985 GBytes |
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Set name |
Purpose |
Content |
Resolutions * |
No. of clips |
Length |
Video format |
Size on disk |
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Stereoscopic 3D test/evaluation (uncompressed Left + Right) |
San Francisco, Las Vegas |
1920x1080 p 59.94 1920x1080 i 29.97 |
70 pairs (35 L+R pairs at each res'n) |
38 mins (19 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit |
680 GBytes |
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Stereoscopic 3D test/evaluation (uncompressed Left + Right) |
Europe (UK) |
1920x1080 p 59.94 2048x1152 p 23.976 |
68 pairs (34 L+R pairs at each res'n) |
38 mins (19 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit YUV planar 4:2:2 /12-bit |
952 GBytes |
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Stereoscopic 3D test/evaluation (uncompressed Left + Right) |
South Korea, Japan, China |
1920x1080 p 50 1920x1080 i 25 |
70 pairs (35 L+R pairs at each res'n) |
38 mins (19 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit YUV planar 4:2:0 / 8-bit |
535 GBytes |
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Stereoscopic 3D test/evaluation (uncompressed Left + Right) |
USA West (SF, LV), Europe (UK) |
1920x1080 p29.97 1920x1080 p23.976 1280x720 p59.94 |
69 pairs (69 L+R) 35 pairs (35 L+R) 34 pairs (34 L+R) |
Total 1 hour 16 mins (38 mins 1080p30; 19 mins at 1080p24 & 720p60) |
All |
784 GBytes |
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Stereoscopic 3D at 4K resolution (uncompressed L+R) |
South Korea, Japan, China |
4K (4096x2304 plus many other resolutions) |
20 pairs (20 L+R pairs) |
12 mins |
YUV/RGB/BMP; planar/interleaved; prog/int; 16/14/12/10/8 |
1,970 GBytes |
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Set name |
Purpose |
Content |
Resolutions * |
No. of clips |
Length |
Video format |
Size on disk |
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Standard HD formats with extensive content |
New York (most), Florida |
1920x1080p25 1920x1080i25 1280x720p25 |
180 (60 at each res'n) |
1 hour 36 mins (32 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:0 |
374 GBytes |
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Standard HD formats with extensive content |
San Francisco, |
1920x108025 1920x1080i25 1280x720p25 |
168 (56 at each res'n) |
2 hours 20 mins (47 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:0 |
540 GBytes |
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Standard HD formats with extensive content |
London, Munich, Barcelona, Bruges |
1920x1080p25 1920x1080i25 1280x720p25 |
201 (67 at each res'n) |
2 hours 15 mins (45 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:0 |
502 GBytes |
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Resolutions D1 PAL and below, incl. VGA, CIF, etc. down to small web sizes |
USA and Europe |
720x576i 720x480i 640x480 320x240 160x120 80x60 352x288 176x144 480x234 220x176 728x90 160x600 (all 25 fps nominal) |
840 (70 at each res'n) |
9 hours 52 mins (49 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:0 |
179 GBytes |
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HD and D-Cinema video with high bit-depths |
USA and Europe |
1920x1080p25 10-bit 1920x1080p25 14-bit 2048x1152p25 12-bit 4096x2304p25 12-bit |
136 (34 at each res'n) |
52 mins (13 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit YUV planar 4:4:4 / 14-bit YUV planar 4:4:4 / 12-bit YUV planar 4:4:4 / 12-bit |
1,849 GBytes |
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Standard HD formats with precisely defined motion and features |
Synthetically generated / altered |
1920x1080p 1920x1080i 1280x720p |
150 (50 at each res'n) |
1 hour 15 mins (25 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:0 |
285 GBytes |
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HD, SD and high-resolution at frame rates for North America (59.94 and 29.97 fps) |
Europe (UK) |
1920x1080p59.94 1920x1080p59.94 1920x1080i29.97 1920x1080i29.97 1280x720p60 1280x720p30 720x480i29.97 |
245 (35 at each res'n) |
2 hours 16 mins (19 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit YUV planar 4:2:0 YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit YUV planar 4:2:0 YUV planar 4:2:0 |
1,420 GBytes |
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HD, SD scenes from Asia at European frame rates |
South Korea, Japan, China |
1920x1080p50 1920x1080p50 1920x1080i25 1920x1080i25 1280x720p25 1280x720p50 PAL (720x576i25) |
245 (35 at each res'n) |
2 hours 13 mins (19 mins at each res'n) |
YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit YUV planar 4:2:0 YUV planar 4:2:2 / 10-bit YUV planar 4:2:0 YUV planar 4:2:0 |
1,180 GBytes |
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HD, SD scenes from Asia at European frame rates |
South Korea, Japan, China |
1920x1080p25 1280x720i25 720x576p50 720x576p50 720x480p50 720x480p25 720x480i25 TFF 720x480i25 BFF |
280 (35 at each res'n) |
2 hours 32 mins (19 mins at each res'n) |
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387 GBytes |
All above sets include audio in MPEG-1 Layer II and uncompressed WAV formats