Seeking a HowTo manual for simple video-editing using only the command line
I was looking at this HowTo on how to extract stills and clips for video files using only the GNU-Linux commands line, and it got me inspired:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Seeking
I had given up trying to do even the most simple video-editing tasks on my aging AA1, because all the GUI video-editing apps clearly require much more resources than my system can handle. But if I can sample clips from existing video files with the command line, what other video-editing tasks could I do with it? what if I could use the command line to do all the tasks required to edit together a simple video; remove audio from video tracks, stick clips together into a sequence, add a music or voice-over track (or both), add simple titles, and so on.
Does anyone know of a good HowTo manual explaining how to do simple video editing entirely with the command line? If not, how difficult would it be to put one together?
That ffmpeg wiki has a lot more documentation like that page linked above, see here:
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki
But ffmpeg might not always be the right tool for any given CLI video-editing task. Even if it is, it would be great to have a more user-friendly HowTo that talks the user through the process of making a few different types of short video (eg music video, demo video, video essay), hosted somewhere like FLOSSManuals.net.
Something this noob-friendly, but with a focus on completing projects with sequences of commands:
http://write.flossmanuals.net/a-look-at-open-video/a-look-at-open-video/
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The most complicated editing I ever did with 'avconv' in Trisquel 7 (replace 'avconv' with 'ffmpeg' in Trisquel 8): https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Adding_media_to_GNU_Audio-Video#Video_editing (downstream stereo to mono, add a title in the metadata, turn two videos into a single video with two audio tracks to choose from, offset a video).
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>The most complicated editing I ever did with 'avconv'
eww, an amateur!! I managed to save a nuclear station secure disaster once with one long smooth ffmpeg liner :)
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