2018

Splitting a video in a grid of videos

Published at November 24, 2018 ·  5 min read

Recently we had a nice idea for the soft-launch of our new website for the company I work for. In a symbolic way we let almost everyone take part by using their phones to display a part of the video. In the end we had 49 phones in a 7x7 grid displaying a video with a countdown timer, showing the new website afterwards.

Pictures to video

The video was made with just still pictures, ffmpeg-concat and the commandline tool FFMPEG. The first thing was to create a video of X seconds per picture we wanted to show. In our case we had a “under construction” page showing for several minutes with some effects in between. After that a countdown with numbers from 5 to 1, and finally a still of the new website.

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