Highlight Videos with Blender: Intro
Pass me the yellow highlighter I have talked about how Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE) is pretty useful for editing conference videos (for example) compared… Read More »Highlight Videos with Blender: Intro
Rob Hallam
Glasgow University graduate. I have wide-ranging interests - please see my about page either here or at roberthallam.com.
For Short Conference Videos: Use OBS and Blender (with tips!)
blOenBdeSr Virtual conferences are popular, but many request a pre-prepared video to explain a paper or a poster. Many conferences suggest using Zoom as means… Read More »For Short Conference Videos: Use OBS and Blender (with tips!)
One-liner: Count total duration based on difference of begin/end
Note: I write this from the perspective of an awk beginner, which I am! This is a pretty basic example, and I make some simplifications… Read More »One-liner: Count total duration based on difference of begin/end
Transcribing A Video’s Audio Using Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Navigating a series of pitfalls Background: I created a highlights video recently for the monthly subscriber crown that I run. I figured the highlights video… Read More »Transcribing A Video’s Audio Using Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
vim flake8/pylint: ‘bad-indentation (found 4 tabs, expected 1)’
check your whitespace Update: For reasons that I forget, I had indent-string=\t in the [FORMAT] section of my user ~/.pylintrc. Since commenting it out seems… Read More »vim flake8/pylint: ‘bad-indentation (found 4 tabs, expected 1)’
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tl;dr: read the compile guide, and set a PREFIX and / or LD_LIBRARY_PATH I did something I don’t normally do and compiled ffmpeg today, since… Read More »ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libavdevice.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Dohiker Trail Cam Produces Broken AVI (but there’s foxes!)
FoxCam not fully operational Over the last few weeks a family of foxes has been visiting my garden. A friend kindly lent me their Dohiker… Read More »Dohiker Trail Cam Produces Broken AVI (but there’s foxes!)
Simple Blender For Streaming: BRB Screen
Walking before I run I’m a relative beginner in Blender, having dabbled in the past with different things. I’ve used it to do bits and… Read More »Simple Blender For Streaming: BRB Screen
Restore YouTube Previews in Element
tl;dr: use the userscript I modified to show preview images (or the original by ItsCinnabar) Recently, YouTube and Google have been showing modal cookie consent… Read More »Restore YouTube Previews in Element
How to Quickly Set Up a Development Matrix Homeserver (with bonus Traefik routing)
tl;dr: use matrix-docker-ansible-deploy, you might be most interested in reading about the traefik aspect What’s All This About? I like Matrix for messaging / group… Read More »How to Quickly Set Up a Development Matrix Homeserver (with bonus Traefik routing)