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From: Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
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Subject: Re: Video Editing
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 10:01:25 -0000 (UTC)
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In message <ronuho$4g5$2@dont-email.me> gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2020-11-14 00:59:50 +0000, Lewis said:

>> In message <0CyrH.662407$%p.518313@fx33.iad> Alan Browne 
>> <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
>>> On 2020-11-12 11:06, gtr 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.
>> 
>>> Handbrake does that - perhaps not to "time code" level, but at least to
>>> seconds or frames in whatever range you need.
>> 
>> I believe that Handbrake *always* re-encodes the video. ffmpeg can be
>> made to copy exactly what you want without degrading it.

> And yet I continue looking for a way to cull a subset by time code.

And still, ffmpeg does exactly that with -ss START -to END

-ss 1:14:34.5 -to 1:14:39 

will give you the give seconds from the 1 hour 14 minute and 34 and one
half second mark to the 1 hour 14 minute and 39 second mark with some
margin for slop based on keyframes, depending on the encode.

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