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FRC Video Splitter (Beta)
I'm proud to announce a little project I've been working on the past few days called FRC Video Splitter. I've hosted the code on GitHub. Download the .zip file and run setup.exe to install it on your computer.
Video Splitter is a simple interface for batching the splitting of a large file into many smaller ones, specifically aimed at FRC match video. The aim is to make it easier for people to split an entire day of recording into individual match videos. At it's core, it's simply a GUI for generating ffmpeg commands. ![]() Instructions for use:
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This looks awesome and really useful!
If you want a basis from cross-platform support, I've got a command line python script that does basically the same thing on my GitHub. It works almost exactly the same way - read the time data from a csv file, send ffmpeg commands to split it, upload to youtube, add to a playlist, and generate a CSV file to copy/paste into the TBA Video Spreadsheet. |
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Cool tool!
On speeding up the time stamping process: You might be able to pull use an excel sheet, and say the Match Timestamps from http://frc-events.usfirst.org/2015/FLFO/qualifications If you get your recording computer clock lined up with the FMS computer.... Does the new FMS Api report timestamps in seconds? |
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I'll definitely use it for this year. It's going to be crazy driving, and directing my little freshman video crew I trained earlier this year. So anything with organizing video will help. When I do it myself it's easy to know which one is which because I make mental notes. When there's 4 other kids using my equipment I don't know what file is which and these kind of programs help. I'll use this in conjunction with plural eyes to organize everything.
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I tried installing this but I got an error when running the setup, I've included a copy of the error log file below. Not sure if it's the program or if I installed ffmpeg wrong (dragged the executable into "C:\").
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Ah. I've had that hash issue on other programs. I'll work on the fix.
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Try downloading again and installing. |
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Hi all,
I figured out how to add ffmpeg.exe as a resource. You no longer need to download it! |
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I think using computer vision to show when to mark the end of a match would be good too. I've seen archived matches where they don't show the final score. If you can't detect the beginning of a match sound I think that labeling the start of the match 'X' seconds before the unique auto/teleop sound would work well too. |
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So I've finally had some time to play around with this and I must say I'm very impressed with the speed and simplicity of using this program. I'm even more happy (and a bit surprised) that it's compatible with .flv files (the native output of our stream software).
One idea on the whole scoreboard discussion; can ffmpeg merge video clips? If it can, you could just add another (optional) timestamp column to the match list for scoreboard appearance times, then take like a 10 second video clip (or for that matter just a still image would work) from that point and tack it on to the end of the match video. Just a thought. |
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