Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

[eric]

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

I have not tried this myself but has anyone tried "easycrop". It is a 
script that uses mpv to do the hard work.

https://github.com/aidanholm/mpv-easycrop

Regards,

Eric