Over the month of November, I worked on a project to create code that generates a movie.
My project this year: see most exciting parts of a movie right away, and leave all those pesky slow, boring parts for the end. Bottom Line Up Front.
What parts of a movie …
Inspired by Simon Willison's collection of sqlite tools, I created
a library for extracting information from a video, and storing it in an sqlite database. It's
called video-to-sqlite. You can also install it
via pip install video-to-sqlite.
You can use Simon's very nifty tool Datasette to explore the resulting DB …
Taking a cue from Simon Willison, a TIL (today I learned) about the moviepy library.
The library is very useful, but sometimes I have difficulty finding documentation on how to do specific things. For example, recently for NaMoGenMo I wanted to crossfade between 2 clips.
Suppose you have two 10-second …
This November, I worked on a project to create code to generate a movie. I got the idea from NaNoGenMo, which itself is based on NaNoWriMo.
My idea was to create a Memento-ized version of an existing movie. If you haven't seen Memento, it's structured where the order of scenes …
You may have heard of NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. It's a challenge where every November, participants work to write a novel, defined as 50,000 words of fiction.
You may not have heard of NaNoGenMo, National Novel Generation Month,, where participants write code to generate 50,000 words …
A software tool for converting video to emojis
The visual look and feel of movies is something that interests me. So I built a tool to visualize it.
Videosplatter is a tool to splat a video file into a mosaic of individual frames. It shows you at a glance the look and feel of the entire video.
You …
How do video codecs work? How do they compress video into such tiny filesizes? A modern video codec is pretty complex, but you can get a pretty good idea of how they work at a high level.
Codec is short for COder/DECoder …