[FFmpeg-user] Adding narration to a video

2024-12-02 Thread John G. Heim via ffmpeg-user
Hi, as unlikely as it might seem, I'm a blind person trying to create a promotional video. I'm in a group of disabled rock climbers and I have a video taken with a GoPro attached to my climbing helmet the first time I rappelled down a cliff.  I want to add narration explaining what is going on

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Adding narration to a video

2024-12-02 Thread John G. Heim via ffmpeg-user
Thanks for the advice, Andriy. That does sound better. I finally figured out a better way to do the whole process though.  The trick is to create an audio file the same length as the video. Don't try to patch audio segments into the video at particular points. Just create one audio file with t

[FFmpeg-user] Problem creating video segment from still image

2024-12-03 Thread John G. Heim via ffmpeg-user
I am blind but I'm trying to create a promotional video for my disabled rock climbing group. I would like to insert a still image into the video. The video has resolution 1280:720 so I resized the image to be less than 1280x720. ffprobe seems to indicate this worked: $ ffprobe -v error -select

Re: [FFmpeg-user] Problem creating video segment from still image

2024-12-03 Thread John G. Heim via ffmpeg-user
The reason I didn't just do that was because I was afraid that rotating the image would rotate the picture itself. The photo is of me rappelling and  I didn't want to  make it look like I'm rappelling sideways. And, being blind, I would have no way to tell. What I ended up doing was using the