Odd Little Videos

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Videos

These videos are about the music for the story 'Celeste's Girl' (Version Française á gauche):

Version Français Intro.

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English Version Intro.

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The film "Portrait de la Jeune Fille En Feu" lit the fuse that inspired the Celeste story. It also inspired this piece, 'Waterfall':

Europe

Paris-Anne is Cooking

at Montmartre

Soldiers, à la Française Anne is cooking in Montmartre.

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Devon-Cornwall

Adventures in Devon Chillin' in Cornwall.

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New Zealand

Getting There

Flying to Queenstown on the South Island.

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Trampin' (Hiking) the Mou

Trampin' (hiking) on Mou Waho at Lake Wānaka.

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Hawaii

Tribute to Mom and Dad

Setting: the original Kaimu Beach tribute to Mutti and Pappa.

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Our Hawaii

The Big Island Hawai`i as seen by a kama`aina.

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Australia

Grow Beds

Back In the Gardening Days: Grow Beds.

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Storms

A Storm blows through.

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Brisbane

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Sea Change

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Girl's Visit

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Brekkie with Han

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Playing with Light

Music by Joachim Raff, featuring lightning, beaches, lovely girls and their puppies. Oh, a contemplative koala.

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Convert Video

Lovely — yes, that’s worth keeping as a tiny “make this web-safe” tool 😊

Here’s a simple bash script version:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 input-video.mp4 [output-video.mp4]"
  exit 1
fi

INPUT="$1"

if [ $# -ge 2 ]; then
  OUTPUT="$2"
else
  BASENAME="${INPUT%.*}"
  OUTPUT="${BASENAME}-web.mp4"
fi

ffmpeg -i "$INPUT" \
  -c:v libx264 \
  -profile:v high \
  -level 4.0 \
  -pix_fmt yuv420p \
  -crf 20 \
  -preset medium \
  -c:a aac \
  -b:a 160k \
  -movflags +faststart \
  "$OUTPUT"

echo
echo "Created web-safe video:"
echo "$OUTPUT"

Save it as something like:

webmp4.sh

Then make it executable:

chmod +x webmp4.sh

Use it like this:

./webmp4.sh Sketch15VF.mp4

That creates:

Sketch15VF-web.mp4

Or specify the output name yourself:

./webmp4.sh Sketch15VF.mp4 Sketch15VF-fixed.mp4

For your media-server workflow, you could eventually put it somewhere handy:

sudo cp webmp4.sh /usr/local/bin/webmp4

Then you can run:

webmp4 Sketch15VF.mp4

Tidy little UBeaut video de-fussing tool. 🎬✨

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