tech and other interesting stuff
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 pieces, like stinger transitions. Having seen a decent simple ‘BRB’ screen on AliMackScot’s stream (Twitch link), so I figured I’d whip up one of my own. Blender is really powerful. […]
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Update 2021-04: There was some discussion of a similar issue over at ffmpeg-user (full thread at nabble). It may not be the same problem, but I found it interesting that Android would produce another seemingly-unrecoverable video I recorded the grinding out of a tree stump on my phone over the course of half an hour […]
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Making the video editing workload much lighter Shotcut is a Free (GPLv3) cross-platform video editor. I’ve been using it a couple of times lately to put some simple clips together (like sorting the Take 2 copyright claim GTA Online video). I figured I’d use it to take a clip of my friends and I getting […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been posting a fair number of videos to another blog for the folk I play games with (including the other MIA author of posts on this blog Kenny). It’s a good way to relive some moments and also a way for me to practice my cutting and splicing skills. Long story short, I encoded […]
Continue ReadingUpdate: Still using this 8 years later, but in the form of a quick script, which is useful if you are doing it more than once. Update 2: DHM points out the way this was written no longer works in modern versions of ffmpeg. Instead of -t 1, use -vframes 1 Dead handy, this: ffmpeg […]
Continue ReadingKinda funny, kinda whimsical. Good for a couple of laffs.
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