FFMpeg has an interesting ability to join multiple video feeds together. In the past, I had use other video editors to do this. They were limited to 2 camera views. In addition, the second camera screen was scaled down and much smaller than the first video. With FFMpeg, we can join more than 2 camera feeds without resizing. I’ll be quick and to the point in this post so try not to blink. In this example I have 4 cameras…
It can seem magical when blurry and low detail video is refocused. Unsharpen masks are the wizard behind the curtain and FFMpeg has this feature. In this post I’ll give some examples of the unsharpen mask. I won’t go into the details or mechanics of how the filter works. This will merely be a quick how to. I’m going to be working with a 30 second clip of video that was shot during the 2012 STP bicycle classic. It was…
In the last post I mentioned that I used a 5 second clip from a larger video. More often that not, large videos will contain fluff that will need to be trimmed before they are published. There are several media editor that will do this. I’ve used OpenShot Video Editor on my system with good results. However, if you had tens if not hundreds of these trim functions to do, using a GUI like OpenShot would be time consuming. Fortunately,…