I’m going to try and figure out how to use ffmpeg, because I currently don’t
know how but would like to; so I’m going to try and figure out how to do some
kind of transformation every (day|week)* until I start to understand it.
* I’m not actually scheduling this, but I’d like to do it at least once a week.
Today I’ll be chroma-keying ‘Pressure Zone’ with ‘Cant Wait To Make Love’ as these were two videos I had sitting on my computer, and Tonetta videos seem ideal for this sort of thing.
# Get the first frame, to figure what colour to chroma-key on
# From the examples section on man ffmpeg(1)
ffmpeg -i zone.mp4 -r 1 -t 1 -f image2 zone.png
# Create a test png to get the similarity right
# From https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#colorkey
ffmpeg -i zone.png -vf colorkey=#1c1810:0.2 out.png
# Combine two images
# From https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#Examples-48
ffmpeg -i zone.png -i love.png -filter_complex '[0:v]colorkey=#1c1810:0.1[ckout];[1:v][ckout]overlay[out]' -map '[out]' out.png
# Create the video, preserving the audio in zone
ffmpeg -i zone.mp4 -i love.mp4 -filter_complex '[0:v]colorkey=#1c1810:0.1[ckout];[1:v][ckout]overlay[out]' -map '[out]' -map 0:a out.mp4
You can watch the (rather lacluster) result on YouTube.
I don’t feel like I understand filter parameters too well after this, but I do feel more confident about ffmpeg’s concept of streams!
I think tomorrow I’ll crop out the curtains, get the right length on the video and maybe even move love so the figures are next to each other