Questions tagged [video-editing]
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How can I use ffmpeg to split MPEG video into 10 minute chunks?
There is often a need in the open source or active developer community to publish large video segments online. (Meet-up videos, campouts, tech talks...) Being that I am a developer and not a videographer I have no desire to fork out the extra…
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How to remove an audio track from an mp4 video file?
I have an mp4 video file with multiple audio tracks. I would like to strip away the rest of the tracks and keep just one. How do I do this?
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Is it possible to merge video files using `cat`?
I wonder if it's possible to merge video files using the cat command? I mean will the resultant file play seamlessly?
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FFMPEG - Interpolate frames or add motion blur
I just watched the trailer for the hobbit, and a trailer for the avengers which both feature an increased framerate. A lot of the comments state that this isn't "true" 60fps since it was not shot at 60fps, but actually a lower frame-rate that has…
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How can I stream my desktop/screen to /dev/video1 as a (fake) "webcam" on Linux?
I have two commands, one that lets me record my screen to an AVI video file, and another which lets me stream a video file as a (fake) "webcam". This is really useful in apps that doesn't support selecting one screen to share (I'm looking at you…
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How to 'burn' a subtitle track onto an mp4 video file
I would like to make a subtitle file to be a part of an mp4 video file, so that I don't have to deal with two separate files.
I imagine two ways:
Make the subtitle an intrinsic part of the video. This will require video re-encoding.
Make the…
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FFmpeg - Split video multiple parts
I read the following thread, and the solution works if I want to split a video into pieces every two minutes: Split video file into pieces with ffmpeg
The problem is that I want to split a video into pieces every 15 seconds.
When I use the…
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Video editor w/ stabilization?
As I slowly migrate from Apple's Mac OS X to a Linux distribution, I try to find good replacements for Apple's iLife software suite. I particularly like the current iMovie's image stabilization feature, where at the cost of losing a bit of…
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How to splice sections of a video with avconv?
I have figured out so far that you can cut a section from a video with avconv with a command like this (cuts from 1:00-3:00):
avconv -ss 00:01:00 -i "input.avi" -t 00:02:00 -c:v libx264 -crf 23 "output.mp4"
But how would I cut two (or more)…
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How can I remove the audio track of a media that I import into a Pitivi project?
Rather than changing the volume of the layer to zero, is there a way to delete the audio track from the layer altogether?
The version of Pitivi I'm using is 0.95.
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correctly splitting an avi file
I'm trying to split an avi file as follows.
avconv -i file.avi -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 0 -t 10 out.avi
and this works (It creates a chunk with first 10 seconds of the video).
The problem is when I want to split from tenth second to twentieth…
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Anyone gotten the switch '-segment_times' working with ffmpeg?
While searching through U&L I noticed a fair amount of questions asking how to script the generation of ffmpeg command lines like these:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:10:00 -c copy 01.mp4
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -ss 00:10:00 -t 00:10:00 -c copy…
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trim and fade in/out video and audio with avconv (or different tool)
I'm using avconv for trimming and converting videos. Let's say I want to drop the first 7 and last 2.5 seconds of the video stream and one audio stream of an one-hour mts file:
avconv -i input.mts -map 0:0 -map 0:3 -ss 0:0:07 -t 0:59:50.5…
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Text to movie from commandline
I need a script called myslide which does the following:
myslide -f 15 -t 20 "Hello World"
produces a movie file (to be played by mplayer), which just displays "Hello World" in the center of the screen in font size 15 for 20 seconds.
Is there an…
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What video editing applications are available in Linux?
Please recommend me a video editor. I am looking for a GUI application.
I haven't done any video editing recently so I do not know what the possibilities are.
Using a Linux only software is fine with me.
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