Video Cutter
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Hi there,
Can someone recommend a video cutter and format converter?
At the moment I'm using either Openshot of KDEnlive - I've always though are overkill to cut a section of video.
"Footage" (https://www.omglinux.com/rotate-flip-trim-video-on-linux-easily/) looks exactly what I'm looking for, small, light weight easy to use for but not sure how open it is.
"Vidcutter" (https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter) seeme to be only installable by flatpak or adding an unknown repo.
Footage is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3: https://gitlab.com/adhami3310/Footage/-/raw/main/COPYING
If you do not want to install VidCutter's Flatpak, you can download https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter/releases/download/6.0.5.1/VidCutter-6.0.5.1-x86_64.AppImage and turn the downloaded file executable.
Thanks for the comments. I always thought Flatpak was frowned on in FOSS for some reason. From what I see Flatpak utility is not installed by default but its included in the Trisquel repo.
Flathub, which is Flatpak's most well-known repository, does include proprietary software. Once Flatpak installed (the package is named "flatpak" in Trisquel's repository), it is possible to only add the "floss" (standing for "Free Libre and Open Source Software") subset of Flathub:
$ flatpak remote-add --subset=floss flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Then, to install VidCutter:
$ flatpak install flathub com.ozmartians.VidCutter
Notice however the "floss" subset includes some free software that only aims to launch proprietary software!
There are some simple (and not to simple) tasks that can be performed using cli and ffpmeg,
To cut a portion of a video you could use this,
ffmpeg -i INFILE.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:01:00.000 -t 00:00:10.000 OUTFILE.mp4
where;
-ss is the starting point in hh:mm:ss[.xxx] - one minute in the example
-t is the duration of the clip (also in hh:mm:ss[.xxx]) - 10 seconds in the example
If you video is 10 min long, and you want from minute 3:00 to 5:23, then that should be -ss 00:03:00.000 and -t 00:02:23.000
You need to play a bit with the "-vcodec copy" and "-acodec copy" (using them or removing them) as sometimes they are not as accurate as one would imagine, but you get a nice speed improvement by far when they do, removing them will transcode the clip taking more time and resources, but that's always 100% accurate.
To convert a video, handbrake does a good job.
I did look at using ffmpeg in a terminal and I suspect thats what apps like Footage is a front end to. I will probibly have a fiddle with this also tonight.
Shotcut is a good program in my opinion