Support Full Motion Video

This is a really useful thing. (Have been doing that with using FFMPEG with FME for a couple of years. There are so many usecases). But in short - any automation of video editing is welcome. Regular video-editing is a very manual and time-consuming task and there is tons of unused videos out there.

In my spare time, I've captured video with a Garmin Virb and am using the same technique ulfme talks about and is detailed here: https://blog.safe.com/2017/11/fme-spatially-enabled-video-editor/

Personally, I am working on mapping the trees in my neighborhood. Right now, I have the images georeferenced to the track, and manually marked the base of the tree with a magenta raster cell.

Any transformers to determine distance using the adjacent track line(s) bearing, angle of the camera, and raster cell mark would be super-helpful. If a raster line (in a distinct color) could be drawn across the tree to estimate age, that would be a 10x bonus!

I'd like to add a few suggestions if I may. I worked at a company that received various large uncompressed video formats for CCTV footage taken for performing engineering assessments from within sewer pipes. But these ideas would be useful for other purposes.

This is a wish list, but it would be good to have transformers that could:

• Compressing and converting the footage from multiple compressed formats to a format more suitable for storage on a network.
• Extract every nth frame. The aforementioned uncompressed footage was viewed as a motion video when an image format, taken every X frames, or every Y metres (sometimes the CCTV video was measured in distance) would be more suitable for engineering assessments.
• Assign spatial links from GIS data to the CCTV footage. For instance, a spatial dataset recording the position and direction of the camera.
• Extract image properties, file name, path etc. to be written to a database to create hyperlinks to the footage.
• extract, remove, realign, or assign audio in a movie file. For example, an engineer might remove water flow noise from a video, and then add a commentary track describing any repairs needed.

Thanks

Totally agree with you, guys! That could be a really useful feature. I’m happy to be not the only one considering this feature extremely helpful. Actually, I totally agree with ulfme’s thoughts on video automation. I mean, everything that could speed up the working process is very welcome, actually. For example, a few days ago, I finally found a vhs to digital converter, so now it will take me twice less time to do my work. So, let’s keep this thread updated, guys. Best wishes to you all.