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OneClipContest is a video editing contest channel. Each week, a new contest is uploaded, along with a results video from the previous week.
The judging process is pretty tedious. with around 50 to 100 entries each week it can take up a full day to get the final results and the final video done.
I started working for the channel around the time it launched it's 96th editing contest. I was in charge of providing footage for several games.
Once week 181 was launched, i became a manager of the channel, shortly after the original owner decided to leave and the channel was given to me.
After a solid 2 years i decided to pass the channel to Chris, a friend of mine, Who is now running the channel.
I created a script that downloads the entries directly off YouTube, writes a drawtext function to the countdown intros and renders the final video.
Videos can be downloaded in up to 4k.
You can download the tool here
View the script (batch): https://ghostbin.com/paste/9ehtk
The process, with timestamp:
The config (which is essentially a batch file that gets renamed and executed):
:: week number
set week=120
:: placement urls
set url_1=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YYrKWrtbp0
set url_2=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbOOcTpFRM
set url_3=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfRzCzuCrc
set url_4=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8_h9Nsa6Jg
set url_5=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiVoM2DbMVk
:: general placements
set place_1=I
set place_2=II
set place_3=III
set place_4=IV
set place_5=V
:: font settings
set font=fonts/arialbd.ttf
set fontcolor=white
set fontsize_1=120
set fontsize_2=120
set fontsize_3=120
set fontsize_4=120
set fontsize_5=120
:: if available, download videos with this resolution
:: 1280, 1920, 2560 or 3840 (4k)
set maxwidth=1280
:: final results video output settings (1440 or 1080 recommended)
set outputw=1280
set outputh=720
:: b-frames (set to 0 if you only wish to render the separate videos, to later use in ae/sv). Default = 16
set bf=16