Low Res Test Media
Test how an encoder handles lower resolution video (D1PAL and below; web-sized), in all aspects of global and local motion, slow/medium/fast motion, with panning, scrolling, zooming, smooth and erratic, high/low contrast, with limited colors/vivid colors and many common subject types. Scenes from Europe (London, Barcelona, Bruges, Munich) and USA (New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas).
T2V004
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2D |
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| Description |
Scenes from Europe (London, Barcelona, Bruges, Munich) and USA (New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas) |
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| Purpose |
Test how an encoder handles lower resolution video (D1PAL and below; web-sized), in all aspects of global and local motion, slow/medium/fast motion, with panning, scrolling, zooming, smooth and erratic, high/low contrast, with limited colors/vivid colors and many common subject types |
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| Video Format |
YUV 4:2:0 planar 8 bits per sample [originally filmed at 25 fps]
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| Audio Format |
MPEG-1 Layer II stereo 384kbps CBR 16-bit 48kHz and WAV linear PCM uncompressed stereo 1536kbps 48kHz |
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| Number of Clips |
840 individual video clips: 70 at each resolution |
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| Length of Video |
Total of over 9 hours 52 minutes (over 49 minutes each at 1080p, 720p and 1080i resolutions) |
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| Size on Disk |
179 GBytes |
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Clip Summary
| Clip ID | Title | Main Purpose | Duration | Begin | End |
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T2V004nn01 |
Bars countdown |
Monitor set up; text |
00:50:00 |
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T2V004nn02 |
Big Ben |
Rapid motion tracking and linear detail patterns with bright colors and large monochromatic areas |
00:17:13 |
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T2V004nn03 |
Red leaves |
Shallow focus on detailed natural patterns and irregular global motion |
01:01:24 |
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T2V004nn04 |
Priest |
Compression of facial features with objects passing behind and in front |
00:49:06 |
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T2V004nn05 |
Eye pod |
Slow global motion with high contrast |
02:23:18 |
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T2V004nn06 |
Angled ride |
Fast global motion |
00:29:00 |
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T2V004nn07 |
Duckman |
Compression of bright and rounded features with quick movement |
00:47:19 |
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T2V004nn08 |
Green weed |
Macroblock motion vectors in high contrast image, with small particles in front of objects |
00:34:04 |
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T2V004nn09 |
Neon tunnel |
Medium speed leftwards global motion with rapid irregular motion and bright changing colors |
01:05:16 |
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T2V004nn10 |
Pidgeon bully |
Compression of fur-like detailed features with shallow focus |
00:39:21 |
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T2V004nn11 |
Red white crane |
Rapid global and macroblock motion vector tracking behind objects |
00:22:04 |
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T2V004nn12 |
Raindrops |
Irregular random objects (raindrops) with patterns and fine detail |
00:32:07 |
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T2V004nn13 |
Polizia |
Text and people compression with limited then rapid global motion and macroblock motion vector tracking |
01:31:09 |
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T2V004nn14 |
Beer festival |
High contrast early evening images with some very bright and some dark grainy images with people |
00:31:15 |
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T2V004nn15 |
Mind the wall |
Compression of very rapidly moving patterns (rapid but consistent global motion and macroblock motion vectors) |
00:21:04 |
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T2V004nn16 |
Little girl |
Random but relatively slow global motion with zoom in and tracking person with people obscuring view |
00:51:11 |
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T2V004nn17 |
Flower focus |
Brightly sunlit natural patterns with focus shifting and zoom out |
01:14:02 |
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T2V004nn18 |
Bike woman |
Medium speed tracking of motion vectors with frequently obscured subject and opposite direction global motion in highly patterned image |
00:32:11 |
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T2V004nn19 |
Cargo boat |
Tracking linear object moving on water with round and detailed pattern objects in background |
00:43:09 |
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T2V004nn20 |
Globes |
Slow global zoom out with round objects and rapidly changing focus |
00:18:16 |
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T2V004nn21 |
Lion fish |
Motion vector tracking slow moving natural high-contrast patterns |
01:01:12 |
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T2V004nn22 |
Nelsons monument |
Slow global scroll down with irregular shapes and patterns and irregular small global movement |
00:25:19 |
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T2V004nn23 |
Lit fountains |
High contrast indistinct objects (water) rapidly changing position and color in grainy image |
01:18:00 |
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T2V004nn24 |
Clock tower |
Macroblock motion vectors of identical mirrored areas with detail but monochromatic background |
00:10:17 |
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T2V004nn25 |
Vatican traffic |
Complex scene with multiple objects for motion vector tracking, with scene jump |
00:21:17 |
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T2V004nn26 |
Water up |
High contrast image macroblock motion vector tracking with random angled motion |
00:25:11 |
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T2V004nn27 |
Sky clouds |
Slow uniform global motion and macroblock tracking of indistinct irregular shapes |
01:03:06 |
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T2V004nn28 |
Times Square |
Global motion of frame to the right with some fast-moving objects in opposite direction |
00:29:14 |
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T2V004nn29 |
Chrysler building |
Global zoom of low-contrast complex scene with many fine lines and detail |
00:38:13 |
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T2V004nn30 |
Display |
Rapidly changing scene on display, with high-contrast |
00:21:10 |
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T2V004nn31 |
Smiling |
Compression of faces, some in and some out of focus |
00:19:17 |
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T2V004nn32 |
Traffic duty |
Compression of people with many movements and some obscuration |
00:32:19 |
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T2V004nn33 |
Empire State |
Global motion scrolling up with fine lines, patterns and angles |
00:57:17 |
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T2V004nn34 |
Checked caps |
Motion vectors of multiple people moving semi-randomly with some obscuration and out-of-focus |
00:21:19 |
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T2V004nn35 |
Gold statue |
Compression of water and largely monochromatic object but which has round and other patterns |
00:49:07 |
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T2V004nn36 |
Eyewitness news |
Compression of rapidly moving text |
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T2V004nn37 |
Buggy ride |
Tracking of large object in foreground moving across detailed background |
00:40:00 |  |
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T2V004nn38 |
Couple talking | Efficiency check dealing with scene with low movement but fine-detailed background | 01:00:09 |  |
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T2V004nn39 |
86th floor | Global motion of pseudo-ransom movement of whole scene, then global zoom out in addition | 00:35:21 |  |
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T2V004nn40 |
Please tell | Compression of screen dots/potential moire fringing | 00:36:16 |  |
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T2V004nn41 |
Traffic twds | Motion vectors of multiple objects growing larger | 00:12:16 |  |
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T2V004nn42 |
NY rant | Efficient compression of talking head foreground and multiple objects moving in background | 00:53:08 |  |
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T2V004nn43 |
Grey buildings | Compression of patterns and lines in visually flat areas (test ringing artefacts around lines) | 00:30:03 |  |
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T2V004nn44 |
Blue coat | Efficiency of talking heads compression with movement and increasing size | 00:24:13 |  |
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T2V004nn45 |
People crossing | Motion vectors of many objects and people of different sizes moving in different directions | 00:35:18 |  |
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T2V004nn46 |
Pan left | Tracking of large object filling image then across detailed scene including text then tracking multiple objects (people) | 00:31:23 |  |
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T2V004nn47 |
Washington Circle | Circular global motion of high contrast but largely monochromatic objects with patterns | 00:18:16 |  |
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T2V004nn48 |
Running backwards | Compression of scene played backwards | 00:25:05 |  |
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T2V004nn49 |
Following | Compression of highly random movement with highlights on large dark area | 00:24:23 |  |
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T2V004nn50 |
Times Sq night | High contrast with multiple very dark areas and very bright areas | 00:26:11 |  |
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T2V004nn51 |
Evening cabs | Night-time scene with many reflective objects mainly getting smaller | 00:43:11 |  |
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T2V004nn52 |
Football game | Motion vectors of objects (people) moving in random directions with pattern and detail (grass) behind | 00:56:22 |  |
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T2V004nn53 |
Coney Island | Text compression and tracking of object (man) in busy scene with largely monochromatic but detailed area (sand) | 00:32:21 |  |
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T2V004nn54 |
Hazy crowd | Motion vectors of very large number of objects (people) in low-contrast scene | 00:31:08 |  |
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T2V004nn55 |
Dizzy dragons | Compression of large high contrast rapidly moving areas (mainly monochromatic), with frequent obscuration | 01:05:21 |  |
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T2V004nn56 |
Turnpike | Motion vectors of small objects moving fast, diagonally, where intermediate frames have been removed | 00:52:11 |  |
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T2V004nn57 |
Enjoy the adventure | Slow global motion & slow zoom | 00:47:19 |  |
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T2V004nn58 |
Pier 39 shops | Medium speed macroblock motion vectors | 01:08:16 |  |
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T2V004nn59 |
Close up carousel | Fast macroblock motion vectors with obscured objects | 00:15:11 |  |
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T2V004nn60 |
Golden evening | Slow global zoom in high contrast with fine lines and out-of-focus | 02:27:15 |  |
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T2V004nn61 |
Waiting in line | Global motion around focus point | 00:52:08 |  |
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T2V004nn62 |
Seagull | Slow global motion and macroblock tracking with highly reflective background | 00:21:07 |  |
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T2V004nn63 |
Boat reflection | High reflectivity high contrast | 00:21:08 |  |
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T2V004nn64 |
Cable car turn | High contrast with tracking of large macroblock areas | 00:50:01 |  |
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T2V004nn65 |
Streets of San Francisco | Highly erratic ransom global motion and zoom out with line detail and obscured objects | 01:59:17 |  |
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T2V004nn66 |
Blue boarding | Very rapid pan left with high contrast areas | 00:07:01 |  |
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T2V004nn67 |
SF silhouette | Slow global zoom with high contrast and over-bright highlights | 00:36:02 |  |
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T2V004nn68 |
Moneyrail | High contrast bright colors and reflections with text, with slow global motion and large area macroblock motion | 00:50:03 |  |
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T2V004nn69 |
Chandelier reflections | Macroblock motion vector nightmare (very hard to correlate correct macroblocks) | 00:17:11 |  |
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T2V004nn70 |
The Real Thing | Slow pan up/down/right with high contrast/high detail and text | 00:44:00 |  |
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Show Reel
Please Note: Sequences are provided as high bit rate, full resolution, uncompressed YCbCr.
This show reel is flash compressed to 2 mbit at 854x574, and should not be used to judge the quality of the source material.
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