How to Retime Runs (for the moderators)
2 years ago
Valhalla
zir0nic
He/Him, They/Them
2 years ago

You can accurately find the length of a speedrun down to the frame with a method known as "retiming."

Mango Man's frame retimer ( available at http://retime.mcbe.wtf/ ) is a good tool for this and gives an explanation on the site, but I thought I might as well do it here too.

First, you need to find the framerate/fps of the video, which can be done by right clicking on a video on youtube and clicking "Stats for nerds." The third line of the box that appears in the upper left says "Current / Optimal Res," and the number after the @ symbol tells you the fps.

After you find and input the fps into the tool, get the exact time of the start of the run by navigating to the first frame (used by pressing the , and . keys), right clicking, and clicking "Copy debug info." Paste the debug info for the first frame into the "Starting frame:" box and the debug info for the last frame into the "Ending frame:" box.

After you have inputted all of the necessary information, the final retimed time of the run appears in the box below, as well as a message including all of the information used for the calculation.

If you find the time of a submitted run to be different from the result of the retime, you can click the triple vertical dots below the video to the right and click "Edit run" to fix it manually.

I think this tool would be very helpful considering the current team just clicks verify without retiming or fixing the times of runs, making the leaderboard inaccurate. Thank you for reading and considering.

Edited by the author 2 years ago
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