Learn my video style from the reels I like. This chat is open on my folder "my-edits", which holds the folders "raw clips", "references" and "renders". The tools are installed: yt-dlp, FFmpeg (with ffprobe) and Whisper (the "whisper" command, or whisper.cpp through "npx hyperframes transcribe"). If one of them is missing, tell me which one and stop.
The links to 3 to 5 reels I like are at the end of this message.
For each link:
1. Download it with yt-dlp into "references", named by the video id:
yt-dlp -o "references/%(id)s.%(ext)s" ""
If a download fails because the site wants me logged in, tell me. You may retry with --cookies-from-browser only after I say yes and name my browser. For YouTube links, if yt-dlp warns about a missing JavaScript runtime, retry with --js-runtimes node.
2. Measure it with ffprobe and FFmpeg:
- length in seconds, width, height, frame rate
- hard cuts: run FFmpeg's scene detection (select='gt(scene,0.3)' with showinfo) and count the cuts. Write cuts per second and the average shot length in seconds.
- loudness: run FFmpeg's ebur128 filter and write the integrated loudness in LUFS.
3. Take frames: one frame every second as JPEG into "references/frames/