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Re: Video: A Language for Making Movies

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Post by rscho » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 9:38 AM UTC

mkl wrote: post #28

soperj wrote: post #10

> Copyright © 2016-2019 Leif Andersen Is it still being updated?

No: https://github.com/videolang/video/commits/master/ . Last commit November 2019.

Im not sure, but I think Leif has graduated

Re: Video: A Language for Making Movies

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Post by Brosper » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 9:42 AM UTC

I would like to see a few examples of usage of this tool. Like code and video example.

Re: Video: A Language for Making Movies

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Post by noiv » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 10:01 AM UTC

CodeArtisan wrote: post #18

EvanAnderson wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks interesting. Thanks for digging that up. I've done a little video editing using Adobe Premiere (mid-2000's) and Shotcut (2022). The UI for both seemed overwrought and difficult to get what I wanted out of. A text description of timecodes and filter parameters sounds a ton easier to use. Having said that, I assume that would exist if the market actually wanted it.

Avisynth+ does that. It is well supported and has a huge community. http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page

AviSynth also has a 'function' keyword.

Re: Video: A Language for Making Movies

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Post by INTPenis » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 10:10 AM UTC

Unfortunately not updated anymore, but in essence it was just an interface to ffmpeg options. So either create pre-defined script modules for all your ffmpeg tasks, or video language scripts. Practically it doesn't really matter, but I think I'd go for simple scripting modules out of familiarity.

Re: Video: A Language for Making Movies

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Post by rafaelferreira » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 10:18 AM UTC

rjh29 wrote: post #6

There's no explanation of how to use it, or even a code snippet. And the documentation is down. So not very useful I'm afraid :(

There are some conference slides linked from project website: https://lang.video/pub/icfp2017/slides.pdf

Re: Video: A Language for Making Movies

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Post by jagged-chisel » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 10:55 AM UTC

> This is a highly unstable and experimental DSL for editing videos. Do not use this library as core parts of it are still being written.

From docs v0.0 link. Not terribly informative, but it’s a start.

Edit: oh, someone found an archive of 0.2 docs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41106319

Re: Video: A Language for Making Movies

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Post by EvanAnderson » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 11:02 AM UTC

CodeArtisan wrote: post #18

EvanAnderson wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks interesting. Thanks for digging that up. I've done a little video editing using Adobe Premiere (mid-2000's) and Shotcut (2022). The UI for both seemed overwrought and difficult to get what I wanted out of. A text description of timecodes and filter parameters sounds a ton easier to use. Having said that, I assume that would exist if the market actually wanted it.

Avisynth+ does that. It is well supported and has a huge community. http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page

Definitely going to check that out. Thank you for the link.

Re: Video: A Language for Making Movies

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Post by zersiax » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 11:04 AM UTC

CodeArtisan wrote: post #18

EvanAnderson wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks interesting. Thanks for digging that up. I've done a little video editing using Adobe Premiere (mid-2000's) and Shotcut (2022). The UI for both seemed overwrought and difficult to get what I wanted out of. A text description of timecodes and filter parameters sounds a ton easier to use. Having said that, I assume that would exist if the market actually wanted it.

Avisynth+ does that. It is well supported and has a huge community. http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page

I'll check that out :) I'd be curious how well this would work without being able to see the video you're messing with (fully blind myself). Will give that a whirl.