In this post I’ll be covering how to process footage that was shot at night. By default, it is difficult to see what was captured with the camera. I do know the length of the video as well as other aspects of it. The clip I’ll be using is 5 minutes long and has a resolution of 1280×720 at 30fps using the H.264 / AVC codec. The audio is a single channel (mono) 16-bit PCM at 32000Hz. I like that…
FFMpeg has an interesting ability to join multiple video feeds together. In the past, I had use other video editors to do this. They were limited to 2 camera views. In addition, the second camera screen was scaled down and much smaller than the first video. With FFMpeg, we can join more than 2 camera feeds without resizing. I’ll be quick and to the point in this post so try not to blink. In this example I have 4 cameras…
It can seem magical when blurry and low detail video is refocused. Unsharpen masks are the wizard behind the curtain and FFMpeg has this feature. In this post I’ll give some examples of the unsharpen mask. I won’t go into the details or mechanics of how the filter works. This will merely be a quick how to. I’m going to be working with a 30 second clip of video that was shot during the 2012 STP bicycle classic. It was…