In this workshop we'll use Python and basic command line tools to explore the possibilities of manipulating video with code. We'll treat video as a textual as well as visual medium, and focus on repurposing found footage to generate new compositions and narratives.
- Intro
- A very brief introduction to the command line
- Getting source material
- Editing videos using FFMPEG
- Editing videos using Videogrep
- Treating at videos as texts
- Subtitle files: how they work and how to download them
- Speech-to-text: using open source and paid tools
- Basic text analysis
- Moviepy