The second of this winter’s videos of Cauldron Falls. This – and other videos and photographs from my Winter 2024 trip – can be found here.
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Cauldron Falls – Winter 2024
And here’s is the first of a set of videos taken at Cauldron Falls in the Winter of 2024. See more videos and photographs from that trip here!
Converting Video to Image Sequences with ffmpeg
Another little aide-memoire masquerading as a blog post; the specific incantation required to turn a video into a named sequence of images with ffmpeg is…
ffmpeg -i <path to source video> -vf fps=<frames per second> <output directory/basename->%d.png…where…
<path to source video> is the path to the video file in question.
<frames per second> is the number of frames per second of footage to extract. This can be less than 1 if you wish to extract at a lower rate than one frame per second.
<output directory/basename->%d.png is a composite instruction to create files in the directory ‘output directory’, for these files to have the prefix ‘basename-‘, and for these files to have an incrementing count appended to the end. It also specifies that the output files should be in the ‘.png’ format.
The Yorkshire Coast – Out into Runswick Bay
Out into Runswick Bay by drone.
A Flight Over Winscar Reservoir
Winscar reservoir and the east end of the old Woodhead Tunnels
Northern Ireland’s Most Wanted: The Lost Television Dramas
Having recently re-watched ‘Missing Believed Wiped‘, I stumbled across a pair of nice articles covering the lost and wiped dramas of Northern Ireland – a region that, like the rest of the UK, lost a number of pieces to a poor archiving policy and the the claws of the bulk eraser.
Seals at Donna Nook, December 2023
A spot of footage from another visit to Donna Nook in December, 2023.
Night of the Mini Dead (Love, Death & Robots)
This is a funky little thing – Night of the Mini Dead, from Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots. Apparently it’s from the show’s third season which, having firmly bounced off the first season (twice!), I’ve not yet seen. The uploader looks to have chopped it into two parts, though neither part is excessively long.
Part One
Part Two
And The Now Obligatory VFX Breakdown
There’s also a nifty VFX breakdown showing how the majority of the piece is actually augmented stock photography overlaid with GCI and with a tilt-shift effect applied.
The Setting Sun – A Loch Bay Timelapse
A timelapse of the setting sun over Loch Bay, Skye. Shot via drone in the autumn of 2023.
FOLK as ROUGH as IRON Filings – Omnibus (1971)
And the BBC Archive has coughed up a lovely spot of old industrial folk music from the early 1970s. It’s certainly worth a listen and it’d be nice if the entirety of that edition of Omnibus somehow managed to make it to iPlayer…