diff --git a/content/posts/goodnight-video.md b/content/posts/goodnight-video.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f0ee5df8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/goodnight-video.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +date: 2013-03-04 12:31:36 +title: Goodnight video +category: English +tags: Music, Video, Kdenlive, slowmoVideo, Omashay, AWS, Amazon, cloud computing, EC2, ImageMagick, Twixtor, Ubuntu, Kubuntu + +A new video has been released by [Omashay](http://omashay.com). Here is Goodnight, on which I did the slow-motion: + +http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAKmRTV7Lek + +The video is [based on a series of 70 sketches](http://omashay.com/2013/02/22/goodnight-the-video/) Tomasito's made for a college project: + +![](/static/uploads/2013/02/goodnight-drawings-keyframes.jpg) + +He wanted to explore the possibilities of reusing them for a music video. I had the perfect secret weapon for this kind of job: [slowmoVideo](http://slowmovideo.granjow.net/), an open-source clone of [Twixtor](http://www.revisionfx.com/products/twixtor/). + +In fact I tried to use that software 14 months ago, but never went as far as producing something. First I realized I had no nVidia GPU at hand. So I rented a *GPU Quadruple Extra Large* EC2 instance (`cg1.4xlarge`) from Amazon's cloud. It cost me $4.70 (without VAT) for 3 hours. But I failed to compiles slowmoVideo. + +I forgot about it until recently, when I learned it no longer required a GPU to compute the optical flow. And last month I found a way to [compile slowmoVideo on Ubuntu 12.10](http://kevin.deldycke.com/2013/02/slowmo-video-ubuntu-12-10/). + +Now it's time to prepare my keyframes. I batch-resized all original drawings to 1080p with a white background. This was done in one command line thanks to ImageMagick: + + :::bash + $ convert -resize 1920x1080 -background white -gravity center -extent 1920x1080 ./keyframes/* pict%04d.png + +Then I applied a paper texture to add some grain: + + :::bash + $ find ./ -iname "pict*.png" -exec composite -gravity center -compose Multiply ./paper-texture.png "{}" "{}"-texturized.png \; + +The series of images were imported in slowmoVideo, and I created a 4 minutes linear ultra-slowmotion with the default parameters. + +Finally, the raw rendering was assembled in Kdenlive with [Goodnight's audio track](http://omashay.bandcamp.com/track/goodnight) and title cards to produce the result that is now [available on YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAKmRTV7Lek). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/templates/videos.html b/content/templates/videos.html index d20b8202..c37e6759 100644 --- a/content/templates/videos.html +++ b/content/templates/videos.html @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

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