Fractals and Music Visualization with FFmpeg
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Turn Your Macbook into a Blender
A decade or so ago the idea of running a full 3D software suite on a mac laptop was pretty much unheard of. Processor speed and memory were the greatest obstacles, and the aggregate of 3D software for the Macintosh platform was rather limited, as well as expensive.
Fast and slow-motion video with ffmpeg
In my last installment we looked at all the reasons why editing video isn’t as easy as it should be. Let’s assume that we’ve cleared those hurdles, and now actually want to do some video editing from the command line. A not-uncommon video effect is fast- and slow-motion, sped-up or slowed-down video. Being common, you’d think it would be readily available in any video editing software, but you’d be wrong. Out of respect for all its other virtues, we’ll be using ffmpeg today.
A quick introduction to not editing video
Pop quiz!
Given (A) foo.mov, (B) bux.avi, and (C) baz.m4v, which can your video software handle correctly?
- A
- A & B
- All of them
- All or some or none of them depending on their codecs, your software’s codecs, and whether they’re doing anything special with the container format.