trailers

Tools for maintaining a digital trailers reel

Mostly around standardizing/normalizing widely different types of video files.

requirements

ffmpeg
node
some standard linux tools

setup

Create this file env.json and put your paths into it:

{
  "original": "/path/to/trailers/original",
  "out": "/path/to/trailers/out",
  "info": "/path/to/trailers/meta"
}

recipes

make trailer reel

This will make a 90 minute trailer reel.

node src/makereel.js

update all metadata

This will create metadata where missing and recompute the metadata if the checksum is different or the video file is newer than the existing metadata file.

node src/updatemeta.js

make missing trailers

This will encode all missing trailers into the output dir.

node src/makemissing.js

considerations

normalize audio
time-cropping to remove 3rd party vanity cards
removing of black bars
standardizing frame rate
standardizing dimensions
padding/letterboxing

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