Commands tagged video editing

Takes all the .3gp files in the directory, rotates them by 90 degrees, and saves them in the lossless ffv1 encoding.

If this rotates in the wrong direction, you may want transponse=1

Re-encoding to ffv1 may result in a significant increase in file size, as it is a lossless format. Other applications may not recognize ffv1 if they don't use ffmpeg code. "huffyuv" might be another option for lossless saving of your transformations.

The audio may be re-encoded as well, if the encoding used by your 3gp file doesn't work in a avi container.

Examples:

The following will take frames starting at 15.2 seconds for a total of 45.9 seconds:

Keep in mind -endpos is the total time, i.e. the output video in this is 3 minutes 3 seconds in length:

concatenates avi files

create a copy of a video file without the audio tracs

Good old cat & output redirection. Using this method you can combine all kinds of things - even mpeg files. My video camera makes a series of .mpeg files that are broken into 4gb chunks. Using this command I can easily join them together. Even better, combined with the cp command the files can be copied and joined in one step.

When playback of AVI files (containing a video format like XviD or DivX) is stuttering, it in 90% of the files is caused by a poorly or wrongly interleaved file. The issue can be permanently resolved by RE-MUXING the AVI video-files that have this problem

With:

-vcodec, you choose what video codec the new file should be encoded with. Run ffmpeg -formats E to list all available video and audio encoders and file formats.

copy, you choose the video encoder that just copies the file.

-acodec, you choose what audio codec the new file should be encoded with.

copy, you choose the audio encoder that just copies the file.

-i originalfile, you provide the filename of the original file to ffmpeg

-ss 00:01:30, you choose the starting time on the original file in this case 1 min and 30 seconds into the film

-t 0:0:20, you choose the length of the new film

newfile, you choose the name of the file created.

Here is more information of how to use ffmpeg:

http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html