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socallinuxexpo / scale-av-cutter

A webapp to streamline the cutting of full-day room streams into individual talks
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webapp + split: Ability to cut out dead air #13

Open ldang opened 4 years ago

ldang commented 4 years ago

For some of the talks, the speakers do an incredible job of summarizing questions and responding to them. But you have these long periods of silence or muffled voices when the questions are being asked. It would be nice to cut out these bits of dead air so we can keep the Q&A part of the talk.

Prime example is "10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Experiencing Burnout", which I won't upload until I figure out how to edit it, or I run out of time. Whatever comes first.
http://scale-av-cutter.herokuapp.com/Saturday/Room%20105

I would like to be able to do it at the webapp stage of deciding start/end times, so this portion could be crowdsourced. But then it means the split tool needs to understand having multiple time stamps for a single talk.

EaterOA commented 2 years ago

It's not too difficult to generalize the tool to support a list of cuts, and have split.py splice them together - but I'm not sure I recommend going down this path. More options means editors become video editors, and there are more things to review ("do I need to cut out these 5 seconds? Or only 10s or more of silence? Can I cut out this guy cussing / ranting about politics I don't agree with?"). It just feels like a slippery slope into video production, which is signing everyone up for more work - for not much gain IMO (if I was a viewer, I can just skip ahead a few seconds).