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I usually open them up in a new project just to create a lossless input video to work with in After Effects, and use that (if I use image sequence directly, DaVinci Resolve acts in weird ways).
ffmpeg might ease that AE part.
Nice, thanks! I tried using ffmpeg for a minor video editing task I had a few months ago - just a cut, crop, rescale, and volume adjust. I've tried a few of the mainstream GUI video editing tools, and IMO, they all have incomprehensible UIs, are way too bloated, and usually far too expensive for what I'm trying to do. FFmpeg may not be dead simple, but I find it much easier to skim the command line flag list to figur…
back when computers were hard, tips like this were gold. but these days, for for a well trod/documented thing like ffmpeg, asking ChatGPT to make the ffmpeg command you want works really well, eg "give me ffmpeg to make a video from a series of jpegs" and iterate from there.
I'd recommend Da Vinci Resolve for making timelapses. It performs really well and let's you scrub through before rendering anything which lets you clip just the part that you need. Plus you get the benefit of high export quality which can be fiddly with ffmpeg.
Been making timelapses with ffmpeg since forever, such a great tool. I try to always have a cam pointed at the sky and upload a snapshot every minute. A telegram command triggers the creation of a timelapse with a similar cli command like the OP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GvaFBzOu2c
Nice, thanks! I tried using ffmpeg for a minor video editing task I had a few months ago - just a cut, crop, rescale, and volume adjust. I've tried a few of the mainstream GUI video editing tools, and IMO, they all have incomprehensible UIs, are way too bloated, and usually far too expensive for what I'm trying to do. FFmpeg may not be dead simple, but I find it much easier to skim the command line flag list to figur…
Davinci Resolve has a free (as in beer) version that is quite capable and easy to use, even as someone who'd only used iMovie before. The only problem is that "how to do X in Davinci Resolve" has been taken over by slop.
back when computers were hard, tips like this were gold. but these days, for for a well trod/documented thing like ffmpeg, asking ChatGPT to make the ffmpeg command you want works really well, eg "give me ffmpeg to make a video from a series of jpegs" and iterate from there.
Please don't let this line of thinking put you (the reader) off sharing tips. Here we now have a thread containing other information we may not have thought to ask anyone/thing about, discussion, history, etc.
https://www.movieprint.org/ & https://github.com/fakob/MoviePrint_v004/
ffmpeg is such a great tool! Be aware that -pattern_type glob is not supported on Windows, though, iirc. A workaround is to name your jpegs with consecutive numbers (not necessarily starting at 0) and use a pattern with a counter placeholder in it instead.
see https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate or https://shotstack.io/learn/use-ffmpeg-to-concatenate-video/