I'm mostly a music tech teacher and sometime music producer, and a very basic programmer (of the use some modules with a lot of stackoverflow reading!), and I just produced a few python scripts to make some stock videos for my tracks that have been released; there were about 80 or so, so I knocked up a script to take the CSV output from the distribution company and tie that up with the image from the release to make a video background, and then another script to set ffmpeg to make a video with that static image, then uploaded all of them to YouTube. I would have liked to make them more interesting by using some of ffmpeg's visualisation abilities in there, but I didn't want to spend too much time on it given the amount of plays they are likely to get (rounding over all of them... zero, although they've streamed and sold reasonably well given the zero promotion we've done).
Reason for doing all that is that the distribution company does something similar, but only 5 minutes of the track (most are 7 minutes plus). I'd think there would be some market in finding distribution companies (mine is Labelworx) and being able to produce interesting, automated videos?
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HN: It's not a graphic equaliser, it's a spectrum analyser in the demo video
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I'd like to know more about what automated video solutions you think distribution companies would like to use. There are companies like Rotor already doing this for individual musicians, but their offering seems a little complicated. Would you mind if I emailed you?
I'm mostly a music tech teacher and sometime music producer, and a very basic programmer (of the use some modules with a lot of stackoverflow reading!), and I just produced a few python scripts to make some stock videos for my tracks that have been released; there were about 80 or so, so I knocked up a script to take the CSV output from the distribution company and tie that up with the image from the release to make a video background, and then another script to set ffmpeg to make a video with that static image, then uploaded all of them to YouTube. I would have liked to make them more interesting by using some of ffmpeg's visualisation abilities in there, but I didn't want to spend too much time on it given the amount of plays they are likely to get (rounding over all of them... zero, although they've streamed and sold reasonably well given the zero promotion we've done).
Reason for doing all that is that the distribution company does something similar, but only 5 minutes of the track (most are 7 minutes plus). I'd think there would be some market in finding distribution companies (mine is Labelworx) and being able to produce interesting, automated videos?
<pedantry mode on> HN: It's not a graphic equaliser, it's a spectrum analyser in the demo video </pedantry off>