| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Filename | HIKE20211229-main.mp4 |
| Length | 22mins 51secs |
| Size | 623.1 MiB |
| Download | MEGA HIKE20211229 |
Created using Linux Bash scripting (no video editor) with supporting applications GIMP and PeakD's AI to create the overlay image. Branding logo package provided by the blockchain.
Video purposely created at 16:9 720p with the focus on the story telling aspect not the visual content. Upload to your favorite subtitle program/app (eg VEED) to add audio and subtitles.
This was a fun template to create, using footage from one of my hikes out in the bush a few years back. This time I added both Audio with Subtitles and a unique VU feature that displays the waveform (underneath the AI model) of the spoken word, another amazing feature of the FFMPEG command as shown below.
ffmpeg -y -i ttsmaker.mp3 -f lavfi -i color=size=480x30:rate=30:color=black -filter_complex "[0:a]aformat=channel_layouts=mono,showwaves=size=480x90:mode=cline:rate=30:colors=gray[v];[1:v][v]overlay=format=auto:x=(W-w)/2:y=(H-h)/2,format=yuv420p[outv]" -map "[outv]" -map 0:a -c:v libvpx-vp9 -c:a copy -shortest ttsmaker-vu.mp4
What an amazing piece of code. I've spent days tweaking the numbers here, watching the results and playing with the types of waveforms this can produce. I really like to keep things simple hence the "cline" waveform works perfectly on this template.
Yeah it's kinda nerdy but I love this stuff. The VU is a small addition but I think it looks cool.
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