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Automatic supercuts on the command line with Videogrep

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Re: Automatic supercuts on the command line with Videogrep

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Post by abathur »

Exciting!

Back in 2011-12, my MFA (poetry) thesis project was a sort of poetic ~conversation between myself, and (selected) poems generated by a program I wrote, using transcripts of Glenn Beck's TV show.

I really, really wanted to be able to generate video ~performances of the generated poem in each pair for my thesis reading (and for evolving the project beyond the thesis). I have to imagine videogrep could support that in some form, at least if I had the footage. (Not that I want to re-heat that particular project at this point).

Great work.

Re: Automatic supercuts on the command line with Videogrep

#12

Post by filmgirlcw »

This is awesome! I’ve considered building something nearly identical over the years, as I’ve definitely used VTT files to aid in searching for content to edit, but never did because getting all the FFmpeg stuff to work made my head hurt. I’m so glad someone else has done the hard work for me and that it’s been documented so well!

Love this.

Re: Automatic supercuts on the command line with Videogrep

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Post by saaaam »

abathur wrote: post #11

Exciting! Back in 2011-12, my MFA (poetry) thesis project was a sort of poetic ~conversation between myself, and (selected) poems generated by a program I wrote, using transcripts of Glenn Beck's TV show. I really, really wanted to be able to generate video ~performances of the generated poem in each pair for my thesis reading (and for evolving the project beyond the thesis). I have to imagine videogrep could support…

amazing - would love to see that!

Re: Automatic supercuts on the command line with Videogrep

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Post by saaaam »

filmgirlcw wrote: post #12

This is awesome! I’ve considered building something nearly identical over the years, as I’ve definitely used VTT files to aid in searching for content to edit, but never did because getting all the FFmpeg stuff to work made my head hurt. I’m so glad someone else has done the hard work for me and that it’s been documented so well! Love this.

Thank you! And it's using moviepy to make the cuts (which is technically speaking the actual hard part).

Re: Automatic supercuts on the command line with Videogrep

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Post by marci »

bovinegambler wrote: post #10
aktuel wrote: post #2

WTF is a supercut. ...OK apparently it means cutting a number of parts from the source video containing a given spoken text and joining them together again. Still not sure why you would call that a supercut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercut

Let me enhance the wiki definition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhF_56SxrGk

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