Re: GNU Emacs: A multimedia editor

[T.V Raman]

Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com> writes:


I do all this with mplayer -- via module emacspeak-m-player which has  a
lot of mplayer tricks in it.


See
https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak/blob/master/lisp/emacspeak-m-player.el#start-of-content
for marking and writing out clips (both audio and video)

>     What does "simple multimedia editing tasks" mean exactly?
>
> These are really simple tasks which are not bothersome for one-off use
> in GUI interface (eg. in openshot video editor). However, since I was
> doing it more often, it was getting increasingly infuriating.
> - Trim segments from start and end
> Most common use-case since I was screen recording using ffmpeg.
>
> - Seek previous/next
> I'm used to arrow keys for forward/backward movement.
>
> - Create segments
> Press RET in viewer mode or RET/SPC in track mode to create a segment.
>
> - Bookmark
> When you have more than two segments, it's useful to bookmark segments
> for easier recall of their purpose or sequence.
>
> - Delete segment
> - Remove void
> When you delete a segment, a void is created. You need to move all
> subsequent segments to cover up the void. In my implementation,
> segments follow each other ignoring whitespaces. So no readjustment is
> required.
>
> - Re-order segments
> - Export to appropriate format
> With ffmpeg, I only need to choose appropriate file extension and it
> picks up sensible defaults. No information overload with a myriad of
> options.
>
> - Merge segments from multiple files
>  
>     
>     I have been using melt https://mltframework.org/ (with wrapper
>     smelt) to
>     edit videos using plain text.  Once I figure out how to do
>     something
>     (sometimes a challenge), editing is much more convenient than
>     using
>     point and click interface.
>
> Agreed. 
>

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Thanks,

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