Re:Ask HN: I'm building an easy-to-use video editor, tell me...
by photawe on Sunday August 30, 2020 @09:16AM
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> That seems like a good default, with the ability to choose an arbitrary image, or a video that will be automatically cropped to the duration of the "gap", or a segment of a video chosen by start-end timestamps.
Got it. Definitely doable ;)
> Not talking about containers. When trying to concatenate videos with different codecs, dimensions, frame rates, bit rates, etc. ffmpeg will issue warnings and output a video. Playing that video messes the players up.
If I understand correctly, that seems like a bug in ffmpeg.
Cool!
>2. "The above but keeping the audio and removing video in those segments, because someone is talking." What do you want to replace that with? (perhaps a still of the last shot?)
That seems like a good default, with the ability to choose an arbitrary image, or a video that will be automatically cropped to the duration of the "gap", or a segment of a video chosen by start-end timestamps.
>3. That is possible already in my app
Nice.
>That is possible already in my app 4. For now, I've only focused mainly on .mov and .mp4, but I can add definitely support more.
Not talking about containers. When trying to concatenate videos with different codecs, dimensions, frame rates, bit rates, etc. ffmpeg will issue warnings and output a video. Playing that video messes the players up.