Last year I provided some FFmpeg patches to support ICC Profiles stored within MP4 (and MOV) files.

The patches were recently merged into master and will therefore be available in the next FFmpeg release.

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ICC profiles can be stored in MOV/MP4 sample descriptor colour information atoms. The relevant extract from the ISO standard is:


Googling for “excel timecode” didn’t produce any results which met my requirements:

  • support 29.97 drop-frame SMPTE timecode
  • calculate a duration given an in-point and out-point
  • provide conversion to and from timecode, frame count and microseconds
  • not based on Excel macros so that the solution can be easily redistributed

Because of this, I am pleased to present a solution which does meet the above requirements:

https://github.com/vectronic/timecode-spreadsheet