Simple Video Editor (.MOV)

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:56:56 -0700, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

>I routinely run ffmpeg on the edited output with no transformations,
>just a straight 'ffmpeg -i <input-file> <output-file>', and it
>routinely shrinks them anywhere from 25% to 90% with no loss of
>quality.
>

Exactly what I was going to suggest.

Ffmpeg can do nearly anything with videos and a large chunk of video handling
software out there is based on ffmpeg. So why not go directly there?

Of course ffmpeg is a command line utility so there is no GUI frills, but it can
do nearly any video editing/conversion task.

I have built a video editor myself geared towards clipping away commercial on
recorded Internet streams and it uses ffmpeg to do the clip job.
The GUI part of that uses the VLC opensource API to navigate within the video
file to locate the clip points.

And my downloader itself is also based on ffmpeg.
Very useful indeed!


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden