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…
lessons learned
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…
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…