As we are accepting commercial edits that help us improve our Enhanced Commercial Detection, it has become useful to collect a set of best practices for editing commercials to be submitted. This guidance tries to make some decisions to have edits that are submitted to us be more consistent.
Feedback is always welcome, and we are willing to adjust.
Please provide the feedback here:
DON'T: include black frames before the start of a show
If there are a couple seconds of silence or black before a show starts, that should not be included.
Rationale: When starting a show it's fine for the first content that is played to be from the show.
DON'T: include "we'll be right back"
If there's a little segment that is a teaser for the show coming back, that is not content.
Rationale: This isn't adding anything to the show and is a form of an ad.
DO: include short black segments at the end of a content block
If there is a short segment of black at the end of a scene, mark it as part of the content.
Rationale: It will help the skip feel less abrupt and can make sure that the last moments of dialog are not cut off.
DON'T: include the "on next week" segment
If there is a segment that is showing the credits and what will be on next week, mark that as an ad:
Rationale: It is not actually part of the current show and often times has voice-overs for other unrelated things.
