Asset set up

In order to profile Blender and determine if there were speed improvements we'll use a fixed set of video assets.

The most common video file formats used by video editors are MOV and MP4.

In the scripts folder there's a file called Assets.make that can be used to download and set up all of the assets we'll used to take measurements.

NOTE: You must be connected to a US-based VPN in order to download the video from the Library of Congress.

Dependencies

You'll need to have ffmpeg and wget installed in order to use the Makefile provided.

If you are on an Apple device, you can used Homebrew to install the dependencies:

brew install ffmpeg wget

Running the script

From the root of the project directory, run the commands below:

mkdir assets
make -f scripts/Assets.make