Composing the Final Video, and a Preview That Saved Me
The two tools I had built, one to break a movie into clips and one to join clips together, were really steps…
Desktop Apps
The story of my first software project, a Python and FFmpeg toolkit I built to cut, join, caption, and compose movie clips for recap videos, told step by step by a self taught maker, including the mistakes.
Building a Second Tool to Join Clips Into Finished Videos
By now I had a tool that could pull clips out of any movie. But that was only half of what I…
Making a Tkinter App Fit Any Screen With a Scrollable Layout
Every time a tool grows, the same thing happens. The screen fills up. I had added new modes and new output types,…
Adding Interval and Screenshot Modes by Reusing What I Had
By this point my tool did one thing well. It found scene changes and cut clips from them. But the more I…
The Python Bug With No Error Message That Cost Me Days
I finished adding a feature to my video tool, ran it, and something was wrong. Not wrong in the way that gives…
The Small Feature That Got Complicated the Moment I Allowed Combinations
Once my tool could find scenes quickly, I added what felt like a tiny feature. Instead of always cutting from the middle…
Rebuilding My Video Tool’s Engine With FFmpeg Scene Detection
My tool looked cleaner now, and it was lighter underneath after cutting the scene detection library. But I had left a hole.…
How Deleting Features Made My Video Tool Better
A few days after I built my video tool, I opened it again, not as the person who made it, but as…
How I Built My First Video Tool in Python, and Why It Started as a Mess
Everyone says start small. My first real project was not small at all. It was a desktop tool to turn long movies…