Silke and I are involved in a Rueda group that put on a performance last weekend. The performance was choreographed (rather than the moves being called out, as normally happens). Last-minute planning made for hectic rehearsals, especially for me and Silke, since we ditched the group the weekend before for a weekend of West Coast Swing. But I think it turned out well in the end.
So here’s our Rueda performance on YouTube.
That video had cruft at the beginning and end I had to cut out. It seems the Gnome camp hasn’t yet produced good video editing software, so I did what I always do when I need to get something done: I pulled out my trusty friend Python. Together with GStreamer, doing basic transformations to the video wasn’t that hard, once I wrapped my head around it all.
This got me thinking that, with GStreamer, somebody could pretty easily make the equivalent of ImageMagick’s convert for audio and video files. A really simple command line tool that can slice time segments, crop regions of video, adjust brigthness/contrast/etc, adjust audio stuff, scale and resize, and so on. While not as awesome as a full-blown GUI video editor, this kind of tool would still be incredibly useful. And it would probably be a weekend project for somebody who knows GStreamer well. Any takers?
