Idea: A spectrogram for videos • 27 Sep 2025
I was driving home after work and I had a vague idea: what if I could represent a video with an image where the X axis was ‘time’ and the Y-axis was something that represented the images (it was this...
Recording an interview with my parents • 22 Jun 2024
This is a personal project of mine: I’ve recently recorded 2 hours of interview with my parents. The purpose is to have a record of their life stories, their memories, their anecdotes, told by them. The idea came to me...
Now I Can Just Print That Video • 01 Dec 2023
It all started with Instagram Reels showing me too many yummy cooking videos. I wanted to try some recipes out myself. But I didn’t want to have to keep my phone in the kitchen, and I didn’t want to have...
Convert Black/White footage to thermographic-like video • 11 Nov 2013
I am doing some really cool research lately concerning video conversion and one of the issues I ran into, concerns infrared imaging. In short: all the ‘cool’ thermographic (colour is dependent on radiated temperature) images are in color, and the...
My quest for Let’s get lost - Chet Baker by Bruce Weber • 14 Jul 2009
Let’s Get Lost (1988) is a American documentary film about the turbulent life and career of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker written and directed by Bruce Weber.
Don’t send me a video, send me a link • 29 Jan 2009
I know, there are so many ‘funny’ videos you just have to share with your friends. So you send them an email. But for god’s sake, not with a 5MB movie in attachment! For all you know, he/she might not...
Screenshots of a DVD with ffmpeg • 08 Feb 2008
I’ve been playing around a lot with video conversion lately and one of the tools I use often is the Swiss armyknife for video manipulation ‘ffmpeg‘. It does format conversion (MPEG1/2/4, Quicktime, AVI …) , rescaling, recompressing, frame rate conversion...
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