Creating a video with a smaller thumbnail video inside is known as a picture in picture effect. I’ve used other video editors in the past to merge various camera views together to give a more complete experience. In this post I’ll cover how to use FFMpeg to do the same thing. It expands the idea of tiled video, were multiple cameras share equal amounts of screen space. Thumbnails offer flavoring for the main camera view. I’m going to step by…
There are times when the content in an image or video is lost in the surrounding details. Live security camera systems have a feature known as PTZ, short for Pan, Tilt, and Zoom. This allows the live cameras a hardware and software way to focus more on an object of interest. With FFMpeg, we can do something similar. In this post I’ll cover the basics of PTZ. Unlike live security cameras were you might notice a transition from the wide…
In this post I’ll be covering how to process footage that was shot at night. By default, it is difficult to see what was captured with the camera. I do know the length of the video as well as other aspects of it. The clip I’ll be using is 5 minutes long and has a resolution of 1280×720 at 30fps using the H.264 / AVC codec. The audio is a single channel (mono) 16-bit PCM at 32000Hz. I like that…