Thank you Jim and Toni, This is awesome. Thank you both for the fantastic links. Really helpful. Excited to wrap my head around this.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 2:22 AM Toni Cambronero García <tocam...@gmail.com> wrote: > This link will explain to you all the secrets of coping sections of videos: > https://youtu.be/hElDsyuAQDA?t=729 > > Gracias por su atención. > > [image: foto+carn%C3%A9+copy.png] > Antonio Cambronero García > 46470 Catarroja (Valencia) > > ✉ tocam...@gmail.com > *☎** 696 01 41 41* > > > > > El jue., 27 ago. 2020 a las 6:53, Jim DeLaHunt (<list+ffmpeg-u...@jdlh.com > >) > escribió: > > > On 2020-08-26 19:50, James Sundquist wrote: > > > I'm looking to copy sections of example.mp4 > > > > > > Ideally this would be by time stamp. Perhaps the time stamps are noted > > in > > > a text file. > > > > > > Example as minutes:second > > > 0:20 - 0:40 as a an mp4 with title "Exercise 1" > > > 0:40 - 0:59 as an mp4 with title "Exercise 2" > > > 0:20 - 0:59 as an mp4 with title "Primary Exercises" > > > > > Hello, James. Fortunately, this is pretty easy to do. Have you read the > > FFmpeg documentation[1] yet? > > > > Look up the main command line options `-ss` and `-to` [2]. If your input > > file is `example.mp4`, then the commands will be like: > > > > ffmpeg -i example.mp4 -ss 0:20 -to 0:40 exercise_1.mp4 > > ffmpeg -i example.mp4 -ss 0:40 -to 0:59 exercise_2.mp4 > > ffmpeg -i example.mp4 -ss 0:20 -to 0:59 primary_exercises.mp4 > > > > Note that `-i example.mp4` says that `example.mp4` is the input video. > > The extension `.mp4` tells FFmpeg that the file is MP4 format. `-ss > > 0:20` means, "discard the input video until 0 minutes, 20 seconds in, > > then start copying to the output video from there. `-to 0:40` means stop > > copying to the output video when the input video is 0 minutes, 40 > > seconds in. There is documentation on this time duration syntax[3]. > > > > I do not know of a convenient way to do all these cuts in one invocation > > of FFmpeg. There may be a way I don't know about. When I had to solve a > > similar problem, I invoked FFmpeg once for each cut. I suggest you use > > a spreadsheet to generate this command invocation from your list of > > start time durations, end time durations, and output file names. Then > > paste the command invocations from the spreadsheet into the command > > line. The command line will run them one after the other. > > > > When you say "time stamps", I assume you mean the elapsed time from the > > start of the input video to your desired moment in the video. The > > documentation calls them "time durations", and means something else by > > "time stamps". > > > > [1] http://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html > > [2] http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Main-options > > [3] http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-utils.html#time-duration-syntax > > > > Does this work for you? > > —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ffmpeg-user mailing list > > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
