Questions tagged [video-editing]
Questions about video editing software and their related topics, not to be confused with [video-conversion].
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Cut part from video file from start position to end position with FFmpeg [duplicate]
I have a video file of 30 minutes, but I want to extract a video from 00:09:23 to 00:25:33.
I can define the startposition with -ss, but I couldn't find one for the end position. Any help please?
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How do I trim a video using Handbrake?
I can't seem to figure out the solution to a very simple problem. I want to trim a video in Handbrake and keep the video as is (resolution, encoding, etc), just chop off the first few seconds, but I ...
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How can I remove multiple segments from a video using FFmpeg?
I am trying to delete a few sections of a video using FFmpeg.
For example, imagine if you recorded a show on television and wanted to cut out the commercials. This is simple with a GUI video-editor; ...
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How do I reduce the size of a huge MP4 video?
I have a 4GB MP4 video file that I shot with the HD Flip Mino. How do I reduce it to no more than 1GB without losing too much quality?
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How to cut at exact frames using ffmpeg?
I'm trying to use ffmpeg to cut video files at precise times. The ffmpeg help shows an option -timecode_frame_start to specify the starting frame but I am unable to get this command to work. The ...
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How can I crop a video to a part of the view?
I have a video that shows the following
and I would like to crop it to this:
How can I do it?
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crossfade between 2 videos using ffmpeg
I've been trying to achieve a crossfade transition between 2 video clips using ffmpeg but have failed so far. I'm new to ffmpeg and am mostly relying on tweaking what I can find in the documentation ...
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Command-line video editing in Linux (cut, join and preview)
I have rather simple editing needs - I need to cut up some videos, maybe insert some PNGs in between them, and join these videos (don't need transitions, effects, etc.). Basically, pitivi would do ...
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Greenscreen (aka chroma key) effect with a webcam?
This is not the blue screen of death I am speaking of, but the process called bluescreening (also known as green screen, or Chroma Key).
It removes a particular colored background from an image so ...
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Rotate a video file 90 degrees using Ubuntu
I want to use Ubuntu and preferably standard packages such as ffmpeg to rotate a .3gp video file by 90 degrees in any direction. Preferably a command line or Python script.
How can I do that?
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Accurately cut video files from command line
I'm having trouble finding a cli application that can take a video file (avi, mkv, and mp4 preferably) and cut out very short clips (2-6 seconds) with precision time accuracy. I've tried ffmpeg, ...
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Increase Volume of an MKV Video from Linux Terminal
I've got a large amount of .MKV video files which seem to all play at a very low volume - I end up having to turn the TV up all the way to hear them, which is really irritating when I switch to ...
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Split Up a Video Using FFMPEG through Scene Detection
I saw this thread, which almost exactly does what I want, but I'm actually looking for splitting on scene detection.
Automatically split large .mov video files into smaller files at black frames (...
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Concatenating ogg video files from the command line
Okay. I've got a few ogg files I've created using a desktop recording tool. I've transcoded them using ffmpeg once (mainly to clip out the beginnings and the ends).
Now, I have 3 such files which I ...
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Lossless universal video format
I am trying to find the most suitable lossless video format for 1280x720 25fps video.
The video has 4 minutes. Sound will be 320 kbps mp3, that is not a big deal.
Ideal conditions:
Lossless (can be ...
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Combining video and subtitle files as one video?
I have a video file (in the format of .mp4, .mkv, .avi or whatever) and a subtitle file (.srt). I want to embed the subtitle file into the video file so that I have only one file - the video file in ...
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What is the best software to split and join avi files? [closed]
What is the best software to split and join avi files without losing quality (lossless) in Windows?
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How can I join multiple .mpg movie files?
I create a lot of these small clips on my digital camera. These are in .mpg format and before I share them with others, I would love to just join, clip a few seconds here and there.
I use Google ...
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Automatically split large .mov video files into smaller files at black frames (scene changes)?
I have 65 .mov video files named tape_01.mov, tape_02.mov, ..., tape_65.mov. Each is about 2.5 hours long and takes up many gigabytes. They are digital copies of what were VHS tapes (my family's "...
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What is an efficient way to do a video crossfade with FFmpeg?
Doing a crossfade between two pieces of video content is actually quite complicated in FFmpeg. There is no “crossfade” filter like there is for audio.
What’s an efficient way to do it?
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How do I swap the first and second audio streams in an MKV in a Linux based system?
I'm using plex. Plex seems to ignore the default audio stream (on Roku) and instead just use the first audio stream. This is per my testing using mkvpropedit.
Since Plex does not currently support ...
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ffmpeg : setting a rectangle in a video to black
I want to set a rectangle in a video to black, so that each frame in the video will have this black rectangle.
Is it possible ?
I want something similar to this:
"How to put border around video to ...
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Suggestions for cutting/clipping videos on Mac OS X (iMovie produces very large files)?
I need to cut out parts of a video (+ the associated audio, of course) to make a short clip. For example, take 2 minutes from one location, 3 minutes from another part of the video, 30 seconds from ...
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Is there a way to add a "fade to black" effect to a video, from the command line?
I have a script to encode videos (using mencoder), but is there a way to add a simple "fade out/in to black" from the command line, preferably free (as in open source).
It could be either on Windows ...
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How can I tell if a video has a variable frame rate?
How can I tell if a video has a variable frame rate? I don't need to be able to do it programmatically, I just don't want to have to install some program that's hundreds of megabytes; for example, if ...
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How to losslessly combine multiple AVI files into a single file?
I would like to combine multiple movie clips with .mov and .avi extension into a single file. Is there any free software in the market that is good and able to perform that?
Preferably that should ...
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How to convert a 16:9 movie to a 4:3 letterbox version?
Suppose you have a 16:9 aspect ratio wide-format movie file and you want to make a version ideal for playing on a 4:3 device. Since you don't want to clip any of the image or distort the picture, so ...
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How do you split a large MPEG-4 video file into smaller files?
I have an hour of raw footage from a users group meeting that I want to split in to 10-minute chunks so I can upload them to YouTube. I did some searching and couldn't really find a good way to ...
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Free Chroma key tools [closed]
I want to create an educational introductory video, where the tutor stands and explain a subject, and the background is an illustration of that subject. This is done using a technique called Chroma ...
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How do I export only a single clip from a Premiere Pro sequence?
I'm cutting a video in Premiere Pro CS4 and need to slice a long sequence into smaller parts. I've successfully sliced the parts, like this:
I even set the sequence markers to the current selection. ...
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Fastest way to cut and remove parts of a video
I have a movie which is encoded using H264 (mp4) and is 800 MB in 720p format.
I need to remove some parts of it for example remove 10:25 to 10:30 and so on.
I've worked with adobe premiere buy it ...
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How can I crop a 16:9 video to 4:3, cutting off the edges?
I've got a 720p video, that contains a picture that's only 4:3, so the edges left and right stay empty/black.
I want to cut of the left and right so that video is 4:3. How do I do this in Windows?
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How to reverse a clip on kdenlive
I'm using Kdenlive v17.12.3 and am trying to reverse a video clip, i.e. play it backwards. Previously, this could be done via 'clip jobs' in the context menu of the respective clip. But this feature ...
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Joining webm videos under Linux
How can I concatenate several .webm files (e.g. downloaded from youtube) into a single file? I've tried a simple cat followed by "mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy ..." - didn't work. I'm using ...
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How do I remove one audio stream from an AVI file?
I have several AVI files that have dual audio in Russian/English. The default audio is Russian, and I want to change the default language or remove the Russian language from these AVI files.
How ...
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What are the minimum requirements/specs for ffmpeg?
I am currently using a small software program I made in Python that utilises ffmpeg on my personal laptop that is overqualified to run it (core i7, 16gb ram etc), but I would like to move it over to ...
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use ffmpeg filter_complex trim with time duration including hours and minutes [duplicate]
I'm trying to setup a script to automate some video manipulation, including trimming the video. for that I'm using ffmpeg filter_complex.
I would like to specify the start and end position using the ...
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ffmpeg: Unrecognized option 'crf'. Error splitting the argument list: Option not found
I'm trying to merge two videos (like here) side by side.
The full log with command:
ffmpeg -i input1.mp4 -i input2.mp4 -filter_complex '[0:v]pad=iw*2:ih[int];[int][1:v]overlay=W/2:0[vid]' -map [...
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How do I trim OGV files without re-encoding?
So first, a little background. I record videos using recordMyDesktop. It's not the gtk or qt wrappers, I just use the command line. The command looks like this.
recordmydesktop -o file.ogv --full-...
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Lossless cutting of MPEG TS files in Windows [closed]
I have several HD video files in transport stream (.ts) format, recorded with my satellite receiver.
I want to cut them, as in simply remove a few minutes from the beginning, the end and sometimes a ...
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How to split videos with FFmpeg and -segment_times option?
I try to split a video with FFmpeg and the -segment_times option like it's shown in this FFmpeg ticket. But it's not working, the error output isn't helpful and the resulting output is a single zero-...
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How can I overlay the captured timestamp onto a video using ffmpeg in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format?
I am trying to overlay a timestamp (date and time when frame captured) on video frames for a stored video file using ffmpeg.
This succeeds in displaying time in seconds since the beginning of the ...
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Cutting MKV files without recompression
I'd like to cut out clips from an .mkv video.
How can I do that, without recompressing the file?
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How to split an m4v file?
I downloaded a TV season on iTunes (.m4v files), however the files are clustered into 3 episodes each. I'd like to chop these up so that each episode is in it's own file. Googling around a while ...
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How to save mplayer's output when watching in ASCII mode (with aalib)
I was helping out a friend working on a presentation where he wants to show some videos he has taken but converted to ASCII art. I can do that quite easily with mplayer on a Linux box using aalib (-vo ...
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ffmpeg - How can I cut starting precisely from a keyframe while codec copying?
Using -ss as input option together with -c:v copy might not be
accurate since ffmpeg is forced to only use/split on i-frames. Though
it will—if possible—adjust the start time of the stream to a ...
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change mp4 `ftyp` from `isom` to `mp42`
Will I be able to change the ftyp of an mp4 file?
I have two mp4 files and placed it unto media info to see what is the difference. The other mp4 plays on my SanDisk Sansa Fuze device while the other ...
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Split MPEG video from command line?
I have a homemade DVD that I'm effectively trying to insert chapters into and rearrange - the original author burned it as one long chapter, and I'd like to rip it into smaller pieces and re-encode it ...
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dividing a video clip by 4 areas
I am working on a program that can playback a video clip in 4 phones. For this I need to supply each phone with a part of the video clip.
Lets say I have a 1080p clip and I have 4 phones. Then I want ...
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Trimming / cropping a movie file?
Now, I'm not really sure what's the exact term here. As far as I saw, cropping is related to video size.
I need a program to trim some parts of the video file. On a timescale, for example, from 0-60s,...
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