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How To Find Frame Number In Video Movie File for FREE on Windows Mac and Linux

The Webernets6 Comments

How To Find A Video Frame Number

From time to time you may find you need to know the frame numbers of individual frames in your videos and movies. This is especially useful if you are compressing and encoding video and want to be able to refer back to your source video and compare it to your encoded video. By picking a specific frame and knowing its number, you can view it from both versions side by side to see how it looks.

I recently stumbled upon DJV, a really useful and FREE program from Darby Johnston that amongst many other things, will allow you to see the frame numbers in videos. It has Windows, Mac and Linux versions, and can be downloaded free from the Darby Johnston Github Page HERE.

Once you have downloaded and installed DJV open it up, and you will see the main interface. Drag and Drop your video file onto DJV to load it.

DJV Main Interface Window

To show the frame numbers we need to click the “View Menu” and select “HUD”, which is short for Heads Up Display.

DJV Show Heads Up Display

Next, open the settings/preferences from the top right corner.

DJV Settings Selection

Then click and expand the “General” section, and in the “Time” option set the units to “Frames”

DJV Timecode to Frames

In the bottom left corner you will now see the frame numbers displayed.

DJV Frame Numbers

Easily find and delete BIG files that are taking up space on your Hard Drive

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full-hard-driveEarlier today I tried to copy a large file I had made in Photoshop and I was told that the operation couldn’t complete because there wasn’t enough room on my hard drive for it. So, I needed a way to get a lot of space back, but I wasn’t sure what was taking up all of the room. I set about looking for ways to see what was going on on my drive and I happened upon some really great tools to help you visualize all your files. The process is called “Treemaps”.

I managed to find free Treemap programs for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. For Windows users, you need to get a copy of WinDirStat (Windows Directory Statistics) HERE. Once installed, you can start it up and tell it to either analyze your whole drive, or specific folders. Here’s how it looks.

windirstat-screen-cap

There is two options for Mac users. Grand Perspective (Gets up and going really quickly, easy to use) and Disk Inventory X (Longer to scan but a more thorough and detailed interface). Here’s how Grand Perspective looks.

grand-perspective-screen-cap

And this is how Disk Inventory X Looks.

disk-inventory-x-screen-cap

For Linux users, you can get KDirStat HERE. I havent tried it yet, but it looks very similar to WinDirStat. This screen capture is from their site.They are all fairly easy to use. Just roll your cursor over the big ones and the filename appears in the bottom left corner of the window. You can then decide which files you want to delete, and start enjoying some free space on your hard drive again.