Karsten Schmidt<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hyalinesystems" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hyalinesystems</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sonomu.club/@madskjeldgaard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>madskjeldgaard</span></a></span> This is a great guide & very useful! 🙏</p><p>Since you asked for potential contribution ideas: I wrote this little script last year and been using it a bunch to create videos of slide decks (for trailers/teasers etc.). Together with this following command to extract thumbnails from a video (as a pre-processing step), you can also use this to create short/time-compressed overview videos of the x-faded thumbs:</p><p>`ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf crop=480:480,scale=200:-1,fps=0.01 thumb-%04d.png`</p><p>The tool is written in TypeScript (because I didn't want to fight with Bash), but shouldn't be too hard to port (if you're interested):</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/112898123354595155" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11289812</span><span class="invisible">3354595155</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/ffmpeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ffmpeg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/xfade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xfade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/cli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/tool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tool</span></a></p>