On 28 Oct 2002 19:15:46 -0800, fanfan@ctech.ca (fanfan) wrote:

>I am wondering if it is possible to detect that a video (that does not
>use any sort of post effect) has been edited on a computer.
>
>I am talking about MiniDV format - transferred through 1394 to
>Premiere, edited there (cuts only) and then sent back to tape through
>the same camera still in 1394.
>
>So anybody could help me with this?

I suspect that you could not detect it easily.
Without causing a rendering of footage with
transitions, filters, effects, etc., the footage
retains the original time and data information,
but the timecode would be continuous on the new
edited tape copy, as it would have been on the
original unedited tape (though it likely would
be different from the original at any given
scene...).