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Generate a MP4 Video for your Git project commits using Gource!

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FFrozenfire92
Last edited Dec 8, 2015
Created on Dec 6, 2015

This example generates a video of a Git project’s commit history as an animated tree visualization. Gource parses the repository’s log data and renders contributors, files, and directories as moving nodes and edges against a black background. The output, at 1920×1080 resolution, is piped as a PPM stream from Gource into ffmpeg, which encodes it as an H.264 MP4 file using the libx264 codec with ultrafast preset and a constant rate factor of 1. A secondary ffmpeg pass compresses the result into a smaller `reposm.mp4` file.

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