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Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

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Re: Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

#21
I don't find trimming videos with ffmpeg particularly difficult, is just-ss xx -to xx -c copy basically. Sure, you need to get those time stamps using a media player, but you probably already have one so that isn't really an issue.

What I've found to be trickier is dividing a video into multiple clips, where one clip can start at the end of another, but not necessarily.

Re: Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

#22

Having to separately download ffmpeg in the windows distribution does not really make sense Just bundle it

I disagree, I don't want another ffmpeg binary, I already have one. Winget works well, especially since this is already a terminal program.

Re: Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

#23

I don't find trimming videos with ffmpeg particularly difficult, is just-ss xx -to xx -c copy basically. Sure, you need to get those time stamps using a media player, but you probably already have one so that isn't really an issue. What I've found to be trickier is dividing a video into multiple clips, where one clip can start at the end of another, but not necessarily.

I don't find Sharing files with people very difficult, just login to your FTP and give an account to another user. - Person commenting on OneDrive

Re: Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

#25

I don't find trimming videos with ffmpeg particularly difficult, is just-ss xx -to xx -c copy basically. Sure, you need to get those time stamps using a media player, but you probably already have one so that isn't really an issue. What I've found to be trickier is dividing a video into multiple clips, where one clip can start at the end of another, but not necessarily.

I don't find Sharing files with people very difficult, just login to your FTP and give an account to another user. - Person commenting on OneDrive

Missed opportunity to reference the famous Dropbox hn comment.

I just think there are other closely related use cases where a separate program can add more value, especially in the terminal. I wouldn't suggest most people should use ffmpeg instead of a gui, those are too dissimilar. Another example is cutting out a part of a video, with ffmpeg you need to make two temporary videos and then concatenate them, that process would greatly benefit from a better ux.

Re: Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

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Don't think I need it (using ffmpeg directly or Kdenlive if I need fine edits) but to know that it exists brings me joy, so thank you!

The intermediary solution for me between ffmpeg and kdenlive is LosslessCut ( https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut ). Also free and open-source... of course it look less cool than a Terminal UI like the OP, but it's very practical when I don't want to reencode everything, or if I just need to change the format of container (MP4, MKV, etc.).

I use losslesscut but its package size is absolutely massive. Would really appreciate alternatives like this.

Re: Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

#28

I don't find trimming videos with ffmpeg particularly difficult, is just-ss xx -to xx -c copy basically. Sure, you need to get those time stamps using a media player, but you probably already have one so that isn't really an issue. What I've found to be trickier is dividing a video into multiple clips, where one clip can start at the end of another, but not necessarily.

I used a plugin in mpv to do it but I can't find it anymore. You just pressed a key to mark the start and end. And with . and , you could do it at keyframe resolution not just seconds.

Re: Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

#29

Having to separately download ffmpeg in the windows distribution does not really make sense Just bundle it

People that use GUIs/tools for things like ffmpeg, rclone etc really want the developer to autodetect if they have it already, and use that instead of installing a separate version/binary.

How do I know? I built one (https://github.com/rclone-ui/rclone-ui)

Re: Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

#30

I don't find trimming videos with ffmpeg particularly difficult, is just-ss xx -to xx -c copy basically. Sure, you need to get those time stamps using a media player, but you probably already have one so that isn't really an issue. What I've found to be trickier is dividing a video into multiple clips, where one clip can start at the end of another, but not necessarily.

I used a plugin in mpv to do it but I can't find it anymore. You just pressed a key to mark the start and end. And with . and , you could do it at keyframe resolution not just seconds.

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