Ask any content creator and they will tell you that creating videos is a time consuming process. For me, the most mundane and worse part of the process is waiting on the videos to render and waiting on the uploads to complete.
Some video editors, have a version of their software that can be ran on a server to render the video files created. By offloading the video rendering to another machine, you can edit more videos in less time.
I created this script to automate the video creation process. Videos that I post on my various content platforms have a predefined structure for each video type. Thus they are easy to automate.
I am a member of organizations, where I am partically or fully responsible for the marketing and branding of that organization. Some of the marketing is done with the use of video. This script also accomidates those additional video types.
Depending on the content that is being render, different graphics with different colors are rendered to the video.
- Kenny Ram Dash Cam - on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays
- RHT Services Home Improvement - on Saturdays
- RHT Services Tech Talk - on Tuesdays, sometimes Thursdays
Command below to render videos on a schedule.
5 0-5 * * * /home/almostengr/videoprocessor/videoprocessor.sh
Command will run 5 minutes after the hour between the hours of midnight (00:05) and 05:05. This time was selected as it is the time that I would be using the computer. Thus the work I would be doing would not be slowed down by the rendering process and visa versa.
Occasionally, there are some additional FFMPEG commands that I need to run to create the videos that I desire to have. Since the commands are rarely used, I chose to not add the functionality that uses these commands into the script, but instead note them here for future reference.
ffmpeg -i FILE0710.MOV -filter:v "setpts=0.5*PTS" -an FILE0710.timelapse.MOV
ffmpeg -i out165.mov -an -c:v copy uncut165.mp4
ffmpeg -i out165.mov -an -vf scale=1920:1080 scaled165.mov
for file in *MP4
do
echo "file $file" >> input.txt
done
ffmpeg -f concat -i input.txt -c:v copy output.mp4
ffmpeg -framerate 1/3 -pattern_type glob -i '*.jpg' -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4
fmpeg -i 20230401_110000.mp4 -i ../../../ytvideostructure/07music/mix03.mp3 -shortest -c:v copy -c:a copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 output.mp4
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "setpts=1.0*PTS" -r 30 -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -c:a aac -b:a 192k output.mp4
ffmpeg -y -i input.mp4 -f lavfi -i anullsrc -vcodec copy -acodec aac -shortest output.mp3
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vn -ac 2 out.mp3
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vn -c:a copy out.m4a
ffmpeg -i in.mov -vf "transpose=1" out.mov
For the transpose parameter you can pass:
- 0 = 90° counterclockwise and vertical flip (default)
- 1 = 90° clockwise
- 2 = 90° counterclockwise
- 3 = 90° clockwise and vertical flip