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This workshop is part of the Graphics Lab, a project aimed at picture retouching to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. More information about the lab can be found on its main page and requests pages (Illustrations ; Photographs ; Maps ; Video and Sound). To ask questions or make a suggestions, see the talk page of the graphic lab page.

This specific page is the requests page for the Video and Sound Workshop. Anyone can make a request for a video or sound to be improved. The standard format for making a request is shown below, along with general advice, and should be followed.

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Use the following template when making a new request, replacing the examples with your image(s) and request(s):

<gallery>
 IMAGENAME.EXT|Description of image
 IMAGE#TWO.EXT|2nd image (If there is one)
 ETCETCETC.EXT|Don't request too many at once, though
</gallery>

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Examples of jingles + audio mnemonics?

Article(s): m:Communications/Sound_Logo/Sound_collaboration

Request

Examples + help making audio mnemonics for wikiprojects

There's recently a move to develop sound logos and other audio shorthands for the projects, starting with one for spoken Wikimedia content that appears in audio streams (personal agents, &c.) We also have a sizable body of audio recordings of articles, and of community essays or blog posts. This leads into intro/outro sequences for videos, but that's worth its own request later :) ----SJ+ 02:08, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

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Debbie Does Dallas (NSFW), remove repeating 4-second clip

File:Debbie Does Dallas.ogv

The clip from around 59:49 to 59:54 repeats from around 59:54 to 59:59. I attempted to cut the repeating segment out of the video, but somehow ended up with a file that's read by players as being 28 hours long(!!!), and while the clip's audio synced, the beginning of the spliced clip was just a still frame. I think this may be related to some weird errors I've been getting from FFMPEG about the impurity of this OGV file (which I'm not wizardly enough with the specifics of how video files work to know why it's impure). @Racconish: Or anyone else: Is it possible to fix this? PseudoSkull (talk) 19:28, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Extracting all frames from video

Article(s): s:Wikisource:WikiProject Film/Drafts/Sherlock Holmes (1916 film)

Request: Extract all the frames from this video as images, with filenames including the timestamps, and send them to me.

I'm working on transcribing this film, and it would be a lot easier if I could browse the frames as still images, which would allow me to know exactly where all the frames with words are and when they show up. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 11:02, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

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@CalendulaAsteraceae: hi,

It's not the appropriate place to request the upload of every frame of a 1:54:17 video!!

6857 seconds @ 24 frames per seconds: 164 568 frames (pictures), without any interest as long as the video exists.

Please, consider using video tools on your own workstation to obtain these images for your own purposes.

Yours, En rouge (talk) 00:07, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

@En rouge: Fair enough! I'll poke at video scene filter in VLC some more and see if I can get it working. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 12:27, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: hi, I don't know if VLC is appropriate for your project.

Personally, to inspect video frame by frame, I like this (Windows) tool (sorry): VirtualDub2 [1].

Moreover, deleting part of the stream can be straightforward using mark in/out to select the segment to delete. Yours, En rouge (talk) 18:49, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

You can do this with ffmpeg. Under Windows, the code would be : ffmpeg -i Sherlock Holmes (1916).webm -vf "drawtext=fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf: text='%{pts\:hms}': x=(w-tw)/2: y=h-(2*lh): fontcolor=white: box=1: boxcolor=0x00000000@1" out%03d.png. — Racconish ^💬 06:10, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Convert podcast 'videos' with non-free still images into sound files

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convert podcast 'videos' with non-free still images into sound files

The files in Category:Blaue Couch are videos of a high-quality podcast by German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk that have been properly released under a free license on YouTube. However, the still images used in the files are copyrighted. Therefore, we need to convert the videos into sound files so we do not have to delete the files altogether. Thank you! --Gnom (talk) 17:42, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

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