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Using FFmpeg in a Film Archive

“FIAF Commissions’ Thursday Online Workshops” on 30 March 2023 from 17:00 to 20:00 CEST.

Table of Contents

Handouts

Exercises

  • Write the FFmpeg command to transcode the exercise TIFF files we have generated into an FFV1 file.
  • Write the FFmpeg command to add into the MP4/H.264 exercice file we have generated both a watermark with its filename and a timecode starting at two hours and fifteen minutes.
  • We did’t see the split screen and the difference file, but this would have been the exercises:
    1. Write the FFmpeg command to generate a second MP4/H.264 file without the hue modification from our TIFF files.
    2. Write the FFmpeg command to make a split screen of the two MP4/H.264 files.
    3. Write the FFmpeg command to make a difference file of the two MP4/H.264 files.
    4. Write the FFmpeg command to make a split screen of the first MP4/H.264 file and the difference file of the two MP4/H.264 files just generated.
    5. Write the FFmpeg command to make a split screen of the first MP4/H.264 file and the first split screen.
    6. What are your observations?
  • Appendix: A Quiz on Audio-Visual File Formats, PDF, 63 KB
  • Appendix: Answers to the Quiz on Audio-Visual File Formats, PDF, 51 KB

Free and Open-Source Software

File Transformations
Metadata Extraction
Media Players
Bridge between uncompressed and lossless compressed files

Bibliography

2023-05-26