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Video Trim and Cut

20201113 This section deals with the extraction of time extents of the video, that is, trim or cut the video. If you are wanting to crop the video image itself throughout a video see Section 89.6.

Using ffmpeg we can extract a segment from a video (-i identifies the input file) from the beginning (-ss says to discard anything before the provided timestamp) of the video to 11 seconds in (-t will stop writing to the output file after the specified duration of the output video) whilst the audio stream is synchronised at the beginning of the output stream to match the timestamp (using -async 1). The following command produces a video of length 11 seconds.

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:11 -async 1 cut.mp4

Note that if -t is specified prior to -i (the input) then the duration refers to the input video rather than the output video. For the above example it would make no difference since we are not cropping the beginnig of the video.

Using avisplit we can also extract a particular section of an avi file (specified as the -input file) and using -t to specifiy the starting point and the end point (starting at 7 minutes and 20 seconds into the video and stopping at 8 minutes and 20 seconds in, respectively):

$ avisplit -i a.avi -t 0:7:20.0-0:8:20.0

Other Options

A graphical interface to trim a video is Video Trimmer which is installable as a FlatPack.

Image video_trimmer


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