Re: Video Editing

From	gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Video Editing
Date	2020-11-12 12:07 -0800
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<rok4m9$ve2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 2020-11-12 19:26:48 +0000, Jolly Roger said:

> On 2020-11-12, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>> I'm looking for an app or utility, that will allow me to do the following:
>> 
>> Feed it a video file, *type in a starting time code and and ending time
>> code*, and have it spit out the clip into separate file.  I need to
>> feed it 30 or more such files, culling 4 portions of video from each,
>> all of them at different times, so it has to be a realitively clean
>> interaction like this.
>> 
>> Any aid appreciated.
> 
> Sounds like a job for a script to me.
> 
> You can use the -ss and -to switches with the ffmpeg command-line tool
> to trim video files with time codes. Read the manual for details and
> examples. There are also plenty of tutorials on the web about it.
> 
> It would relatively trivial to write a little script (AppleScript, Ruby,
> Perl, shell, whatever) that reads a list of video names/paths along with
> the appropriate time codes from a text file and then invoke ffmpeg with
> the right parameters to do the splicing.

That might be a good educational project for the Autumn.

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Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-12 08:06 -0800
  Re: Video Editing Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2020-11-12 09:57 -0800
    Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-12 10:52 -0800
  Re: Video Editing JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2020-11-12 14:17 -0500
    Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-12 11:45 -0800
    Re: Video Editing Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-12 19:50 +0000
      Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-12 12:04 -0800
  Re: Video Editing Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-12 19:26 +0000
    Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-12 12:07 -0800
  Re: Video Editing Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-13 10:22 +0000
    Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-13 12:26 -0800
      Re: Video Editing Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-13 21:06 +0000
        Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-13 14:01 -0800
          Re: Video Editing JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2020-11-14 04:14 -0500
            Re: Video Editing Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-14 15:35 +0000
              Re: Video Editing JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2020-11-14 12:45 -0500
                Re: Video Editing Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-11-14 17:55 +0000
                Re: Video Editing Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-14 18:46 +0000
      Re: Video Editing Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-14 01:12 +0000
  Re: Video Editing Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-11-13 11:36 -0500
    Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-13 12:24 -0800
      Re: Video Editing Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-11-13 19:38 -0500
        Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-13 22:46 -0800
          Re: Video Editing JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2020-11-14 04:30 -0500
            Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-15 08:43 -0800
          Re: Video Editing Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-11-14 09:56 -0500
            Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-15 08:46 -0800
              Re: Video Editing Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-11-15 12:03 -0500
                Re: Video Editing Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-15 18:25 +0000
                Re: Video Editing Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-11-15 13:39 -0500
    Re: Video Editing Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-14 00:59 +0000
      Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-13 22:47 -0800
        Re: Video Editing Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2020-11-14 10:01 +0000
      Re: Video Editing Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-11-14 09:35 -0500
  Re: Video Editing Angus McGiver <somebody@somewhere.com> - 2020-11-13 12:06 -0500
    Re: Video Editing gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2020-11-13 12:25 -0800

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