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On 12/20/21 1:13 AM, eric wrote: |
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> On 12/20/21 12:55 AM, Wols Lists wrote: |
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>> On 20/12/2021 06:11, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> On 20/12/21 13:40, Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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>>>> On 20/12/21 11:17 am, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>>>> Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick |
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>>>>> edit of a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice a bit in/out of |
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>>>>> the middle?) |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> BillK |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> |
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>>>> How easy should it be? Won't ffmpeg allow you to do this type of |
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>>>> thing but you need to do a bit of work to get what you need - no |
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>>>> nice GUI? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Andrew |
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>>>> |
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>>> I am using ffmeg now to reduce the video size. Its a Christmas |
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>>> message taken on a lumix camera that needs to be sent a few thousand |
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>>> km over what may be a flakey mobile link. I just wanted something I |
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>>> can play a video, click on a point and delete everything before that. |
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>>> Same at the end. Looking at kdelive its a stupidly complex program |
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>>> that has a steep learning curve to do the above. |
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>>> |
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>> I'm looking for the same. On my PVR I just create two chapter marks, |
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>> and delete the section between the chapter marks. |
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>> With pretty much every bit of linux software I've found, I have to |
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>> import my source into a project, make a meal of deleting the sections |
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>> I don't want, and then I can't just "save a file", I have to tell the |
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>> program loads of crap that I don't have a clue about, I just want my |
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>> new file to be EXACTLY THE SAME as the original, just missing the bits |
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>> I've deleted. |
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>> |
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>> Most software works like that, why doesn't video editing software? |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Wol |
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>> |
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> |
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> I have not tried this myself but has anyone tried "easycrop". It is a |
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> script that uses mpv to do the hard work. |
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> |
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> https://github.com/aidanholm/mpv-easycrop |
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I spoke to soon. This script does not do what you are looking for. It |
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just allows you to select a rectangular section of the screen and crops |
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the rest. It does not allow you to remove sections of the video like the |
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beginning few minutes. |
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Regards, |
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Eric |
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