Music researcher. Research musician. RITMO. University of Oslo. NIME. NordicSMC. Open Research. Father. He/him.
I often want to create motion videos, that is, videos that only show what changed between frames. Such videos are nice to look at, and so-called “frame differencing” is also the start point for many computer vision algorithms. We have made several tools for creating motion videos (and more) at the University of Oslo: the … Continue reading Frame differencing with FFmpeg
I have previously written about how it is possible to “flatten” a Ricoh Theta+ recording using FFmpeg. Now, I have spent some time exploring how to process some recordings from a Garmin VIRB camera. Some hours of recordings The starting point was a bunch of recordings from our recent MusicLab Copenhagen featuring the amazing Danish … Continue reading Pre-processing Garmin VIRB 360 recordings with FFmpeg
Here is another FFmpeg-related blog post, this time to explain how to rotate a video using the command-line tool FFmpeg. There are two ways of doing this, and I will explain both in the following. Rotation in metadata The best first try could be to make the rotation by only modifying the metadata in the … Continue reading Rotate video using FFmpeg
I have previously written about how to trim video files with FFmpeg. It is also easy to crop a video file. Here is a short how-to guide for myself and others. Cropping is not the same as trimming This may be basic, but I often see the concepts of cropping and trimming used interchangeably. So, … Continue reading Crop video files with FFmpeg
When working with various types of video analysis, I often end up with video files without audio. So I need to add the audio track by copying either from the source video file or from a separate audio file. There are many ways of doing this. Many people would probably reach for a video editor, … Continue reading Combining audio and video files with FFmpeg
