In what I'm trying to do, I need to remove some parts of a video file, and create a new one from that.
For example, from a video file like this:
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I make two cuts
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and generate a new smaller video file:
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And when I say 2, I mean an arbitrary number of separate cuts, depending on the video file.
If I wanted to cut just one part I would do:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -ss 00:00:03.500 -to 00:00:08.500 -async 1 cut.mp4 -y
Which works perfectly. I could perhaps do this many times and then join all the cuts together... But this is very inefficient for larger video files.
To make two cuts I was looking at filter_complex. I've been trying to get it right for hours but I can't seem to get this working :/
If I do something like this I get a video with no audio:
command = 'ffmpeg -i video.mp4 \
-filter_complex "\
[0]trim=start_frame=10:end_frame=20[v0];\
[0]trim=start_frame=30:end_frame=40[v1];\
[v0][v1]concat=n=2[v5]"\
-map [v5] -async 1 output.mp4'
If I try to do this, things get all messed up:
ffmpeg -y -i video.mp4 \
-filter_complex "\
[0:v]trim=start_frame=10:end_frame=20[v0];\
[0:a]atrim=start=10:end=20[a0];\
[0:v]trim=start_frame=30:end_frame=40[v1];\
[0:a]atrim=start=30:end=40[a1];\
[v0][a0][v1][a1]concat=2:v=1:a=1[v5][a]"\
-map [v5] -map [a] -async 1 output.mp4
I even trying to to this in Python with ffmpeg-python https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python but I also can't get audio to work.
Can anyone give me some help on this? Thank you very much!!