Step 1: Download Visual Search Pony – duplicate video finder
Visual Search Pony is free from spyware, malware and adware which is confirmed by a number of independent parties such as Download.com, Softpedia.com, TopShareware.com and etc.
Step 2: Run the program
To run the program, select Start > All Programs > Visual Search Pony > Visual Search Pony
Step 3: Add one or more target directories
Go to the “Source folders” and select target folders where you store your video library.
Click “Add” button to add a folder.
Click “Remove” button to remove a previously selected folder.
Step 4: Specify video indexing and matching options (optional)
- First, you need to specify how many seconds of each video should be indexed. The longer this interval is, the more accuratelly duplicate videos will be detected (there will be less false positives). However, it takes more time to index long intervals, we recommend to find some optimum or keep default value (3 seconds).
- Enable “Skipe first 3 minutes” option if you are going to organize a movie collection. Movies can have similar beginnings (intro of a movie company), so to avoid wrong detections, our program allows to start processing only from 3rd minute of a video (after all intros).
- “Fast video reading” option makes video reading 2-3 times faster by ansyncing video and audio. Unfortunatelly some DirectShow codecs may be unstable in that circumstances and lead to crash. Disable “Fast video reading” option in case you faced smth. like this.
- Adjust “Sensitivity” slider to regulate how close the detected duplicates should be. It is recommended to change this option after running a first scan, in case there are too many false detections or vise versa. Second scan is usually pretty fast, cause Visual Search Pony stores all indexes to the cash and so does not have to repeate video indexing twice.
- Some video duplicates can be misaligned in time, i.e. same momemnt can take a place on 2:03 on a first video and and on 2:07 on a second one. To accept this, set “Max shift” value to 5 seconds.
Step 5: Start retrieval
Click the “Search” button to start retrieval. Visual Search Pony will scan the selected folders for duplicate video files. Found clips are compared against each other and grouped together if they have similar content.
Since there are many video formats in the world, our software determines duplicates on the basis of the visual content of files. For this, the program processes each file and generates it`s short signature which is compared against signatures of other files. This process is also known as video fingerprinting.
To index video, Visual Search Pony processes only limited number of seconds of each video and stores a calculated signature in cache, so that next time you need to organize video files, the program can re-use cached signatures and process only new clips.
Step 6: Remove duplicate files
When the scan is over, Visual Search Pony shows results as a list of thumbnails, each representing a particular video. For each file, the program displays context information such as path, resolution, duration, date of last modification and a checkbox indicating the file status: duplicate or original.
Notice: since displaying 10000 and more thumbnails simultaneously can affect performance of you computer, the program only shows first 3000 thumbnails.
Usually people want to remove duplicates and leave all original files as they are. Visual Search Pony automates this process. For each group of similar files, it can identify the original by comparing video resolutions. The file with highest resolution is considered to be an original.
The program automatically puts a tick into the checkboxes next to duplicates and leaves the checkboxes of original files unchecked. This lets you remove duplicates quickly and leave original files where they are.
Click 
to cut duplicates to the clipboard
Click 
to copy duplicates to the clipboard
Click 
to move duplicates to trash
You can put or remove a tick by clicking the checkbox, or pressing the Space key. Also you can select one or more items by pressing “Shift” and “Up” / “Down” keys, and then perform the same operations on them.
Click 
to cut selected files to the clipboard
Click 
to copy selected files to the clipboard
Click 
to paste files from the clipboard to the directory of your choice
Click 
to move selected files to trash
Double-click to open the item in the default viewer (assigned for this file type in Windows Explorer settings)
Click the item to view it in the preview area (images only)
Final step:
Now as you learned a new way on how to find and remove duplicate videos, please Download Visual Search Pony to proceed with this.