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For people who inherit or collect a folder of video and sound files and want one table before editing starts. You get a Windows PowerShell script that runs ffprobe on every file and writes a CSV of container, duration, codec, frame rates, rotation and sound, with warning flags for files likely to cause trouble and an optional hash to find copies. It ran only on 15 generated files, each made with a known property, so camera files, professional formats and big folders are untested.
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Make an inventory CSV of a footage folder with ffprobe on Windows: codec, frame rate, rotation and sound for every file, plus warnings for risky files
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For people who inherit or collect a folder of video and sound files and want one table before editing starts. You get a Windows PowerShell script that runs ffprobe on every file and writes a CSV of container, duration, codec, frame rates, rotation and sound, with warning flags for files likely to cause trouble and an optional hash to find copies. It ran only on 15 generated files, each made with a known property, so camera files, professional formats and big folders are untested.
Example
On a folder of 15 generated files the script flagged every file as I had made it (variable frame rate, rotation, no sound, picture shorter than sound, copies) and reported a text file named .mp4 as a probe error instead of stopping.
Useful starting points
- Treat a flag as a hint to look at the file, not as a verdict.
- Matroska files print no stream duration field; the script falls back to their DURATION tags, and a file without those tags gets no length check.
- Turn on the hash only when you need duplicates; it reads every byte of every file.
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