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?
Great choregraphy indeed, very interesting.
I’m doing salsa also ( and even give salsa lessons ), and I’m pleasantly surprised to see some Opensource dev doing salsa.
Keep on 🙂 Que vive la salsa !
I personally think the GStreamer convert idea is hysterically brilliant; wish I was good enough at GStreamer to build it myself. I keep having to fall back on ffmpeg for this sort of thing, and I’d much rather use GStreamer…
Avidemux would be such a tool:
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
Richard, avidemux was one of the GUI tools I looked at using, but I couldn’t get it to build.
Sorry to hear about that, it worked quite ok on my system, but sometimes it’s just easier to hack a custom solution than getting a grip on an existing tool, I know that. 😉
Avidemux doesn’t handle Theora video, either, which is rather a shame 🙁