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EdisonLite MusicFan

Joined: 18 October 2004 Location: United States
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Posted: 25 November 2022 at 6:39pm | IP Logged
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This is off-topic but I'm sure there are some people here that edit videos. Can
anyone recommend a simple-to-use software that simply edits specific parts
out of a digital video (mp4)? For instance, an hour-long show that has 2 songs
in it. I'd want to edit out everything except the 2 songs. In Wavelab, for audio,
I'd simply highlight each section of non-music and hit delete. And I'd be left
with the 2 musical segments. Anything in the video editing software world
that's that easy? I'm not looking for fancy visual effects, like overdubbing or
adding text to the video (although that might be included). Thanks. There may
even be a good price on the Black Friday to Cyber Monday weekend.
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mjb50 MusicFan

Joined: 28 April 2021 Location: United States
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Posted: 26 November 2022 at 2:34am | IP Logged
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For simple trimming, I don't use a graphical editor. I just make a note of the timestamps for what I want to keep, and use FFmpeg on the command line to copy whatever portion I want to separate files. Then I merge them.
Code:
ffmpeg -i inputfile.mp4 -c copy -ss 37:07.5 -to 41:30 s1.mp4
ffmpeg -i inputfile.mp4 -c copy -ss 42:10 -to 44:22 s2.mp4
echo file s1.mp4 > flist.txt && echo file s2.mp4 >> flist.txt
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i flist.txt -map 0 -c copy output.mp4
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cristianmdp MusicFan

Joined: 01 June 2021 Location: Argentina
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Posted: 26 November 2022 at 10:28am | IP Logged
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Not sure if you can do exactly that with the following
software but you can cut and export each segment you want
to keep with "AviDemux".
Here:
https://www.videohelp.com/software/AviDemux
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chendagam MusicFan

Joined: 27 August 2006 Location: United States
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Posted: 26 November 2022 at 10:59am | IP Logged
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OpenShot is a nice free editor that works on Mac and PC:
https://www.openshot.org/
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