Simple video editing?

[Christopher Friedt]

Using transcode it is very likely also possible to do this. Transcode 
also links into the ffmpeg code if it's specified as a build option.

There is also lots of documentation about transcode.

http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode

There are several methods of reducing the size of each of the movies. 
You might also want to look into encoding the audio with a different 
codec or using a slightly lower sampling rate (I usually find that 160 
kbps is more than enough for most films).

You can also reduce the frequency of keyframes in the mpeg conversion I 
think.

Most of my use with transcode comes from using 'dvd::rip' (obviously for 
encoding ... umm... all of those home-movies with my kids and whatnot... 
what am i saying, i don't even have any kids) but I would recommend it 
without hesitation.

~/Chris

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I have two DIVX (.avi extension) video files. I want to reduce the size 
> of them, by reducing the resolution, but also by chopping off the first 
> and last few seconds of the clip.
> 
> The former I think I can figure out using ffmpeg, but I'm not sure what 
> to use for the the latter.
> I'd like to have a simple tool that could extract, for instance, the 
> span from 1:15 to 59:45 out of a video.
> 
> Any suggestions? Is ffmpeg the best tool for resizing?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Evan
> 
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