BLIND(7)

💖 NAME 💖

blind(7) — from the Miscellaneous Information Manual — is your group-chat hub for blind, the collection of command line video editing utilities. Periodt. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so blind is a collection of command line video editing utilities. It uses a custom raw video format with a simple container. If you have a video file you want to edit, you first have to convert it with blind-from-video(1). And to be able to play your video in a video play (yes, the page says “video play” 😭), you have to convert it with blind-to-video(1).

🚨 Raw video takes up a tremendous amount of space, bestie. You should therefore avoid storing the video without first converting it with blind-to-video(1). Do not let raw video eat your disk — convert first. 💀

🛠️ UTILITIES 🛠️

Here’s the whole squad — every utility, every one-liner, no cap:

• blind-arithm(1) — performs simple arithmetic on a video
• blind-colour-ciexyz(1) — converts CIE XYZ for use with blind-single-colour(1)
• blind-colour-srgb(1) — converts sRGB for use with blind-single-colour(1)
• blind-compress(1) — compresses a video for network transmission
• blind-concat(1) — concatenates videos
• blind-crop(1) — extracts subframes for all frames
• blind-cut(1) — retains consecutive frames
• blind-decompress(1) — decompresses a video compressed by blind-compress(1)
• blind-dissolve(1) — fades a video by changing its alpha channel (the page spells it chaning it's, bless 💀)
• blind-extend(1) — adds margins to a video
• blind-flip(1) — mirrors a video vertically
• blind-flop(1) — mirrors a video horizontally
• blind-from-image(1) — converts an image to a frame
• blind-from-text(1) — converts text to a video
• blind-from-video(1) — converts a regular, cooked video to a blind video
• blind-gauss-blur(1) — applies Gaussian blur to a video
• blind-invert-luma(1) — inverts the luminosity of a video
• blind-next-frame(1) — extracts the next frame from a video
• blind-read-head(1) — reads the head from a video
• blind-repeat(1) — repeats a video
• blind-reverse(1) — reverses a video
• blind-rewrite-head(1) — rewrites the head of a video
• blind-rotate-90(1) — rotates a video 90 degrees clockwise
• blind-rotate-180(1) — rotates a video 180 degrees
• blind-rotate-270(1) — rotates a video 270 degrees clockwise
• blind-set-alpha(1) — multiplies the alpha channel of a video
• blind-set-luma(1) — multiplies the luminosity of a video
• blind-set-saturation(1) — multiplies the saturation of a video
• blind-single-colour(1) — generates a single-colour video
• blind-skip-pattern(1) — skips frames in a video according to pattern
• blind-split(1) — splits a video, by frame, into multiple videos
• blind-stack(1) — overlays videos
• blind-time-blur(1) — draws new frames on top of old frames with partial alpha
• blind-to-image(1) — converts a frame to an image
• blind-to-text(1) — converts a video to text
• blind-to-video(1) — converts blind video to a regular video
• blind-tranlate(1) — performs framewise translation of a video (yes, tranlate is literally the utility name in this manual — don’t @ me 🫶)
• blind-transpose(1) — transposes a video
• blind-write-head(1) — writes the head of a video

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

bestie, go look at these too:

• ffmpeg(1)
• ffprobe(1)
• convert(1)
• sox(1)
• rubberband(1)
• soundstretch(1)
• blind’s website: <http://tools.suckless.org/blind/>

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The author is Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> — show some love. 💖

🌈 That’s the whole manual, bestie. Footer check: source/version is blind 1.1, the page is BLIND(7) — and the footer doesn’t show a date, so I’m not inventing one. Periodt. 💅✨