Questions tagged [video-editing]
Questions about video editing software and their related topics, not to be confused with [video-conversion].
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Is there a way to add with 1 click in Windows a video clip at the end of each of thousands of other videos?
Videos are on a folder on a hard drive on a computer for example D:\RobertoVideos\
Looking for a program that can do this.
Writing code is also in consideration if there's no program that does this ...
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What is the most efficient way of stacking two videos using FFmpeg?
I want to stack two videos of a talk together vertically using FFmpeg. One shows the presentation (slides) and one shows the speaker. Since I want to do this for several talks, I'd like to do this in ...
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How to create video by stacking two videos side-by-side without re-encoding?
I want to stack two 1920 x 2160 video clips side-by-side to make one 3840 x 2160 clip that can be played on my TV. The video clips are HDR.
I need to do this without re-encoding as I need to be able ...
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Get blur effect inside a backdrop using ass format
I have created an backdrop with rounded corners using drawing command. Example of dialog for backdrop.
Dialogue: 0,00:00:38.60,00:00:42.10,Default,,0,0,0,,{\p1\1a&HD8&\c&HE27FA4&\pos(...
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How do I set a custom aspect ratio in ClipChamp?
I am editing footage from a Steam Deck with an aspect ratio of 16:10 in the video editor ClipChamp. However, the only aspect ratio options I see in are 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, 2:3, and 21:9.
How do I ...
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How can I delay a particular rectangular region in a video relative to the rest of it using FFMPEG or other software?
I am watching a video which is a power-point presentation but it also has a view of the speaker in the bottom left corner. Unfortunately, the powerpoint-view and the speaker-view are not synchronized. ...
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FFmpeg: To trim a video using 'trim' and specify time using HH:MM:SS format
FFmpeg 7.0.1. I want to understand whether it is possible to trim a video using trim and to specify start and end time using the HH:MM:SS format instead of just seconds.
That is, the following command ...
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Trimming a video using FFmpeg leads to black screen
I try to figure out how to use FFmpeg to trim videos. I have created a 30 second .mov screen capture using Apple's QuickTime player, and then tried to trim it using three different ways:
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HDR to SDR Full Convertion
How do I fully convert HDR videos/movies to SDR? Meaning, the output SDR will have all the colors from the HDR input? Is that even possible?
Will this do the trick?
ffmpeg -i INPUT -vf zscale=transfer=...
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Segmented File Size
In VirtualDub2, when I select "Save segmented AVI", it uses the default settings which are set to raw video and PCM for audio. How do I change it to other settings like H.264 and AAC?
If ...
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YUV: Change the Chroma Subsampling and Bit Depth Without Losing Quality
Let's say I have a short video with YUV 4:4:4 and 10bit depth, and I convert it to a FFV1 with YUV 4:2:0 and 8bit depth. Is the FFV1 lossless? Will the colors be the same?
If so, how do I convert ...
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FFMPEG extract chapters not copying correct title
The original ffmpeg file has the chapters like
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00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01
00:07:02.083 : en:Chapter 02
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Boilsoft Video Splitter - Keep Subtitles and Audio Format
I have a H.265/HEVC video with two FLAC audio tracks and subtitles. How do I use Boilsoft Video Splitter to split it with frame accuracy while preserving all audio tracks as they are and keeping the ...
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Pausing the video for 15 seconds
I have a video which is 40 seconds long, I want to make it 55 seconds long, I wanted that the video's first frame along with it's audio freezes (frame freezes) for the first 15 seconds and after the ...
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It is possible to use QTGMC deinterlacing with FFmpeg?
I'am using the media-autobuild_suite (on Windows). This tutorial describes how to install and use QTGMC with AviSynth+. My question is can one use FFmpeg only to deinterlace video files with QTGMC?
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Create a slideshow video with the date added as a text automatically
Is there a way to Create a slideshow with the date as a caption automatically?
So basically, I want to create a slideshow video of family photos and as each image is displayed the date and time of the ...
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ffmpeg, need help to make small thumbnail slideshow video from long video
With ffmpeg command, I am trying to create a small thumbnail slideshow video of a large video
by selecting one frame every 60 seconds and then combining those frames to make a video in a way that each ...
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Where does ClipChamp save the audio file created by the TTS feature?
I use ClipChamp for my personal video editing and, oftentimes, I use its text-to-speech (TTS) feature.
When I create the audio files for the video I'm current editing, it works great.
However, when I ...
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iSCSI + SMB for online video editing server
I am putting together a shared storage server for 25 people to edit video from. I had an idea to combine iSCSI and SMB to get the best of both protocols in the following way:
Video footage is stored ...
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Remove frames from a video depending on black pixel ratio
We have a surveillance camera recording taken at intervals of a month. It is necessary to remove the dark time of the day (night recordings) from the record or from the video file by deleting all ...
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How Can I Automatically Split a Large Video Into Multiple Videos Between 1 or 2 Second Black Screens?
I have a large video where the scenes are split between black screens that are a second or 2 and I'd like them to be split into multiple mp4 files with the audio included automatically. Can you ...
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ffmpeg hangs when trying to convert analog static from fpv drone
I am trying to convert a .MOV file to an .mp4 file using moviepy, which as I understand is a wrapper for ffmpeg. I have had prior success, but was disappointed when ffmpeg ground to a halt at 89%. I ...
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Change 50fps video into 25fps and keep the duration without reencoding
I have a 50fps video, where every second frame is a duplicate of the previous frame. I want to upload this video to youtube and I want youtube to think it's a 25fps video. Is this possible?
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FFmpeg - Cut video from the beginning until a certain pixel is colored at a specific color
I am new to working with FFmpeg and would like to automate video trimming but can't find a way to do it.
So, what I would like to achieve is this: I want to delete the beginning of a video file until ...
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Replace video track in MKV with track from .h264
I want to replace only the video part in my existing mkv file with the video.h264 file I created externally, I don't want to interfere with other parts or features in my mkv file such as audio or ...
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Is there some way to losslessly "cut off" from the beginning and/or end in an .mp4 file?
First of all, yes, I know that .mp4 videos are lossy.
Many of them contain annoying unwanted stuff in the beginning or end, which I neither want to see nor want to take up storage space on my disks.
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How do I start 15 seconds before each video in this filter_complex expression in ffmpeg?
I have 4 videos basically of 4 people playing together in a coop game. It starts at the same cut scene and then shows each player s screen.
I am trying to merge them together in a 4 x 4 grid with all ...
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Free-hand crop video in kdenlive
I would like to mark an area inside a clip, and delete what is not inside this area (something like selection tool in gimp).
The idea is to create an effect that somebody who runs appears exactly ...
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Extract only video from file using FFMPEG
I have an mp4 file named "input.mp4" and I need to extract only the video stream into another mp4 file, without re-encoding. How can I do that? I found a way to extract the audio stream but ...
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ffmpeg - How to interpolate frames at a single instance in a video?
I have a 5 second video with 60 fps. It is a single take shot except a minor cut at 00:00:02.208. I have found some resources that use interpolation in the entire video in order to increase frame rate ...
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FFMPEG Concat Demuxer causes freeze between clips
I wrote a program that takes multiple clips from a video, then concats them into a single, shorter video, using FFMPEG. The issue that I have come across is that, in the output video, the clips freeze ...
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How to record audio in Clipchamp?
So I'm trying to use this Microsoft's Clipchamp app to edit my video to which I want to add some my comments - record audio
But I can't find the way to do, this app only suggests camera+audio ...
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Trim .tp files without re-encoding
I'm currently using ffmpeg -ss xx:xx -to yy:yy -i input -c copy output to cut some files and it works fine with .ts and .mp4, but it can't handle .tp files. Here's what I get:
[mpegts @ 0x198acd0] PES ...
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Overlay video on top of Image - Do not resize Video, simply create a "larger" canvas around video
Is the following possible with ffmpeg?
Basically I want to leave the original video size alone, just make the video centered over a larger image, so it creates a border effect, as per following:
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Removing the dash from both ends of a pattern using Regex
I want to remove the dash from both ends of a pattern -L-07-TV-04-Clip-01- using Regex.
-L-07-TV-04-Clip-01-
-I-have-to-realize-
-me-having-this-addiction-
-END-OF-CLIP-
-L-07-TV-04-Clip-02-
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How do video editing programs process large files?
Imagine a video is 4 seconds long at 4k 25fps. An editing tool would process the compressed video file to raw pixels and frames i assume, because editing the compressed one is very complicated. But in ...
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How can a color blindness simulation in FFmpeg be done?
How a can color blindness simulation in FFmpeg be done?
I am asking this question because I want to make a YouTube video with simulated color blindness.
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How to automate video editing and output new videos with scene combinations / permutations?
Is there a way to automate video editing, where it takes an input video and list of timestamps, and then outputs videos with different scene combinations / permutations?
See illustration below, I have ...
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Questions about a multi setup RAID and NAS together?
So here's the idea:
I want to run a 8TB M.2 PCIE 4.0 3 disk setup on top then down bottom I am considering my options.
I am thinking about doing a NAS Setup with a RAID 1 Array together.
The total ...
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how to combine two ffmpeg commands into one?
I am currently using this command to cut the first 10 seconds of all videos in a folder so the output is the whole video minus first 10 seconds.
FORFILES /M "*.mkv" /c "cmd /c ffmpeg -...
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Cut off from beginning to key frame using FFMPEG
How to cut away a piece at the start of video from beginning to the next key frame?
I know the -ss option
ffmpeg -y -noaccurate_seek -ss 00:00:30 -i "%%~ni.mp4" -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -...
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What do we call this line in video editing?
This might be an obvious question but I can't seem to find the answer to it.
What do we call the line highlighted in yellow?
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Ffmpeg chunks to final video or final video with HLS
i want to optimize the speed of the ffmpeg video creation.
At the moment:
Creating small videos and concatenating them with xfade and using HLS after all video chunks are made. So it does take time to ...
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splitting mp4 with ffmpeg does not remove chapters
I created a bunch of mp4 videos from DVD images using handbrake. I need to split them, and this appears to work with the solution from this question FFMPEG Splitting MP4 with Same Quality. For ...
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Removal of select subtitle tracks and audio tracks from mkv file in batch
My problem is that I have 2 subtitle tracks, one is named "English signs and songs" and another is called "English full". I also have English and Japanese audio tracks (dual audio)....
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FFmpeg. Combine drawtext, fade and afade filters with filter_complex
I have these two codes that work fine, separately
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -filter_complex "drawtext=fontfile=Lato-Light.ttf:text='TEXT':fontsize=60:fontcolor=white:alpha='if(lt(t,2),0,if(lt(t,4),(t-2)/...
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How to cut and download a part of lengthy youtube video without downloading the whole video to my mac?
I tried many online tool but some of them not working and Some giving error, maybe due to original video length
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Combining video with several audio files
I need to combine several audio files with a video file. Each audio file should have a specific volume, time and delay. Combined as a whole it works fine. The problem arises with the volume of the ...
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How to display instant preview without exporting FFmpeg video?
I am using FFMPEG to generate video from images but the problem is that I can only show the preview of the video after executing FFMPEG command and it’s takes time to generate output.
On terminal I ...
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How to edit/properly fix a DVD VOB/BUP/IFO file?
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I have a DVDISO file, and opening it doesn't work because my built-in disk mounter can't read it.
So, I open it up with VLC and all looks fine. When booting it up it's supposed to take you to a ...
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