ubermichael / apa

Mock up of a video remixer thing

Video Slap Chop

Requirements

• jq (brew install jq should do)
• csv2json (npm install -g csv2json)
• sponge (brew install moreutils)
• PHP
• Yarn and friends

1. Start with a CSV file like foo.csv

Video,Section,Title,Start,End,URL,Description,Image
"Imprint II, Camera A",,Colour Bars,00:00:00,00:00:29,https://example.com/foo.mp4,,
,,The Audience,00:00:30,00:02:24,,,
,,Forgotten Memories,00:02:24,00:09:00,,,
,,The Stranger,00:09:01,00:11:56,,,

2. Convert it to JSON

csvtojson $csv | jq '.' | sponge $json

3. Download the video

curl https://example.com/foo.mp4 -o foo.mp4

4. Extract clip preview images

./screens foo.json foo.mp4

5. Reprocess the JSON file to include the clip images.

php ./preprocess.php foo.json public/screenshot | js '.' | sponge foo.json