I’m still tweaking my Easter project a bit.
Beau Travail (from where I gratuitously stole some frames) is in 1.66:1, while my sideways TV is 9:16. Fortunately, Denis Lavant mostly keeps to the middle of the frame, but sometimes he dances off to the edges. I briefly contemplated editing this myself, manually, by using video editing software…
But then decided that that sounded too much like actual work. Most of the work would be getting the video editing software working again; I haven’t used it for many years.
So I asked an LLM whether it could script something up for me. The results are above.
But the shifts are kinda abrupt and mechanical, right? So I asked it to make things more natural, and:
I think… that’s OK? It also fixes an issue I was pondering: Since I’m basically displaying a grid — even if most of the blocks are “off” — perhaps there would be further burn-in on the blue blocks? Burn-in was what made this TV ready for being dumped in a river somewhere anyway. (I mean recycled. Recycled!)
So perhaps I should just declare this project done. (Which means that I’ll think of something else to tweak in 3… 2…)