tech and other interesting stuff
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 to how it used it to be. As an aside, I seem to remember audio desynchronisation was a particularly problematic issue, the workaround being, essentially, don’t make videos with audio […]
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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 of putting together a short video to explain research. This is acceptable, but with a little bit of setup OBS can produce videos which are better quality and give the […]
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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 itself was worth posting, but I like to have the speech captioned. I’ve previously written a small script to generate the appropriate transparent PNGs for overlaying, but that was for […]
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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 trail camera. You can see example output above (or here if embeds are disabled). I was interested to see what exactly they were doing in the garden- I’ve seen them […]
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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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