Webcast: AVEditor

Original respository: https://gitlab.cern.ch/webcast/AVEditor/tree/openshift

An automated video editing and encoding tool accessed though a web interface used for:

• Trimming a video
• Adding intro / outro slides
• Encoding the video to a standard format (H.264 for video stream, AAC for audio stream, original resolution mantained)

Requirements and dependencies

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• Docker + Docker Compose
• PostgreSQL DB
• Remote FFmpeg machine

Installing and running on localhost

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After cloning the repository: https://gitlab.cern.ch/webcast/AVEditor.git run:

docker-compose build

docker-compose up

Configuration

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Flask config

APP_PORT , DEBUG , TESTING

WTF-forms

SECRET_KEY

Flask-Uploads

Even though the value of these env vars may be the same, it's still necessary to specify each one separately as these values are used to override the default destination location of the UploadSets

These env vars must contain paths with trailing slash, Example: /path/to/input/folder/

UPLOADED_IMAGES_DEST, UPLOADED_VIDEO_DEST, UPLOADS_DEFAULT_DEST, UPLOADED_VIDEO_URL, VIDEO_OUTPUT_DEST

Database

DB_NAME, DB_PASS, DB_PORT, DB_SERVICE, DB_USER

FFmpeg

Binaries to ffmpeg and ffprobe without trailing slash, Example: /usr/bin/ffmpeg

FFMPEG_BIN, FFPROBE_BIN

remote machine's path to input video folder: This will be the path of the mounted EOS FS plus the input dir

FFMPEG_FILE_FOLDER

SSH

SSH_KEY_ will contain path like_: /path/to/ssh/key/id_rsa

SSH_SERVER, SSH_USERNAME, SSH_KEY

OAUTH

CERN_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID, CERN_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET

SMTP

MAIL_HOSTNAME, MAIL_FROM

File download

Hostname of the server on wihch the file to be downloaded wil reside

HOSTNAME

FFmpeg commands

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Some ffmpeg commands used by AVEditor. These commands are generate in the app.utils.ffmpeg Class

Command used to get information about the video in JSON format

ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_entries stream=width,height,duration,codec_type <output_file_path.mp4>

**Command used to cut a video given sart ad stop time **

ffmpeg -i <path_to_video_file.mp4> -ss <start_time> -t <stop_time> -c copy <path_to_output_file.mp4>

start and stop time need to be in the following format: HH:MM:SS, for example:

ffmpeg -i <path_to_video_file.mp4> -ss 00:00:20 -t 00:02:45 -c copy <path_to_output_file.mp4>

Command used to concatenate intro and outro slides to a video

Brief explanation of

-loop 1 -t 5 -i <slide1_path> - Generates a video of t seconds from image i

-i aevalsrc=0 - Generates silent audio to fill in audio stream of the image-generated video

-i <video_path> - Input video

Complex filter

For each slide we select the video stream [<no_slide>:v] and apply some filters like resizing and padding

Then we assign an alias to this video stream for the first slide [v0], for second [v1] etc...

for the first slide:

[0:v]scale=480:360:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=480:360:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2[v0]

[v0][1:a][2:v][2:a] - Choose the order of the video streams, in this case we use the alias of the first generated video, concat the null audio src and the original video and audio stream of the input video

concat=n=2:v=1:a=1 - Concatenate 2 video streams into 1 video stream and 1 audio stream

Command to concatenate 1 intro slide (5 seconds) to one video

ffmpeg -loop 1 -t 5 -i <slide1_path> -t <slide1_duration> -f lavfi
-i aevalsrc=0
-i <video_path>
-filter_complex
"[0:v]scale=480:360:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=480:360:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2[v0];
[v0][1:a][2:v][2:a] concat=n=2:v=1:a=1"
<path_to_output_video>

Command to concatenate 1 intro and 1 outro slide (5 seconds) to a video

ffmpeg -loop 1 -t 5 -i <intro_slide_path> -loop 1 -t 5 -i <outro_slide_path> -t 5
-f lavfi -i aevalsrc=0
-i <video_path>
-filter_complex
"[0:v]scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2[v0];
[1:v]scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2[v1];
[v1][2:a][3:v][3:a][v0][2:a] concat=n=3:v=1:a=1"
<output_video_path>