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I've been learning electric bass and recording some scratch tracks for fun.

I enjoy sharing my progress on Instagram stories, and want an easy way to take an mp3 recording and turn it into a video.

Working with gpt-4o via clix I've been iterating on ffmpeg commands which I can run locally in my terminal.

Here's my current flow:

  • Fender Squier Mini Precision Bass
    • Cheap but great sound and super fun to play
  • Mustang Micro Headphone Amp
    • Can hear myself play via headphones
    • Pipe in music from my phone via Bluetooth
    • Connect to Garageband via USB-C and record both the music and the bass
    • Honestly, an incredible little device
  • Export Garageband recording to mp3
  • Take a screenshot of my iPhone with the song I'm playing along to
  • Now I have some_track.mp3 and some_track.png on my desktop
  • Run my custom ./make_video.sh some_track command in the terminal
  • Video appears on my desktop
  • Upload to Instagram stories

It's complicated but trust me, it used to be worse.

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Go ahead and clone this repo to try it yourself!

Example Output

eileen_o_briens.mp4

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Reusable ffmpeg command to create Instagram videos with animated waveforms

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