There’s plenty of software out there that will allow you to record a slice of a video. I like command line tools for this sort or thing because I find they often are a little more flexible and precise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also hope to use some of these command line tools in a future automation. That will hopefully come in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Assuming you have FFMPEG installed, you can create the following batch script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
@echo off\nsetlocal\n\nREM Check if FFmpeg is installed\nwhere ffmpeg >nul 2>&1\nif %errorlevel% neq 0 (\n echo FFmpeg is not installed or not in PATH.\n echo Please install FFmpeg and try again.\n exit \/b\n)\n\nREM Check if enough parameters are provided\nif "%~4"=="" (\n echo Usage: %0 input_video start_time clip_length output_video\n exit \/b\n)\n\nREM Set input parameters\nset input_video=%1\nset start_time=%2\nset clip_length=%3\nset output_vid=%4\n\nffmpeg -ss %start_time% -i "%input_video%" -c copy -t %clip_length% "%output_vid%"\n\necho Video clip creation completed: %output_vid%\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nThis is just a very simple script that will slice out a video from the given start time, and length you wish it to be. Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
.\\clip_video.bat ".\\input.mp4" 00:02:51.000 7 ".\\output.mp4"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nThe 3rd input there is the length of the video in case you were wondering. I’ll probably find some dynamic way of creating the output file so I didn’t bother trying to extract the extension to reuse. Also ffmpeg could probably save it as a different type, but I don’t care about that at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leave me a comment with any suggestions on how to improve this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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