Inverting video colors

The purpose of this recipe is to demonstrate how to perform pixel manipulations on videos in much the same way as we did with images. In this recipe, we'll invert the colors of a short video clip.

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Note

WARNING: This recipe must be run on a web server due to security constraints with the getImageData() method.

Follow these steps to invert the colors of a video:

How to do it...

  1. Create a cross-browser method that requests an animation frame:
    window.requestAnimFrame = (function(callback){ return window.requestAnimationFrame || window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame || window.mozRequestAnimationFrame || window.oRequestAnimationFrame || ...

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